Amazon Redshift expands SUPER data type to store strings up to 16 million bytes
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Amazon Redshift expands SUPER data type to support individual strings up to 16 million bytes, enabling direct ingestion of large semi-structured data without complex pre-processing.
- Strings within SUPER data types increased from 65,535 bytes to 16 million bytes
- Applies to JSON, PARQUET, TEXT, and CSV source files and ELT processes
- Eliminates need for complex pre-loading transformations for large documents
- String functions like JSON_PARSE, CONCAT, and LISTAGG now handle 16 million byte strings
- Available in all AWS Regions including GovCloud
This enhancement simplifies ingestion and querying of large semi-structured data in Amazon Redshift using SQL and PartiQL.
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