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Summing values from a JSON array in Snowflake


I have a source data which contains the following type of a JSON array:

[
  [
    "source 1",
    250    
  ],
  [
    "other source",
    58
  ],
  [
    "more stuff",
    42
  ],
  ...
]

There can be 1..N pairs of strings and values like this. How can I sum all the values together from this JSON?


Solution

  • Note: The answer below is outdated, a preferred solution is to use REDUCE as suggested by Lukasz.

    You can use FLATTEN, it will produce a single row for each element of the input array. Then you can access the number in that element directly.

    Imagine you have this input table:

    create or replace table input as
    select parse_json($$
    [
      [
        "source 1",
        250    
      ],
      [
        "other source",
        58
      ],
      [
        "more stuff",
        42
      ]
    ]
    $$) as json;
    

    FLATTEN will do this:

    select index, value from input, table(flatten(json));
    -------+-------------------+
     INDEX |       VALUE       |
    -------+-------------------+
     0     | [                 |
           |   "source 1",     |
           |   250             |
           | ]                 |
     1     | [                 |
           |   "other source", |
           |   58              |
           | ]                 |
     2     | [                 |
           |   "more stuff",   |
           |   42              |
           | ]                 |
    -------+-------------------+
    

    And so you can just use VALUE[1] to access what you want

    select sum(value[1]) from input, table(flatten(json));
    ---------------+
     SUM(VALUE[1]) |
    ---------------+
     350           |
    ---------------+