Use SEARCH with unstructured data

If you only need to find specific values within unstructured data, then you don't need to go through the work of un-nesting your data. You can search inside unstructured data using the SEARCH function from BigQuery.

This exercise is part of the course

Introduction to BigQuery

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Exercise instructions

Finish the query to run the SEARCH function to look for a value containing '0da9ffd92214425d880de3f94e74ce39' in the order_items column in the ecommerce.ecomm_orders table.

Hands-on interactive exercise

Have a go at this exercise by completing this sample code.

-- Finish the query to search across the unstructured data

SELECT 
    -- Complete the SEARCH function
	___(___, ___) as results   
-- Add the correct table name
FROM ___
LIMIT 5

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