lateral view explode

Lateral view explode is a feature in Hive, a data warehouse infrastructure built on top of Hadoop. It allows you to explode complex data structures such as arrays or maps into multiple rows. This can be useful when you want to unnest nested data and process it in a tabular format.

For example, let's say you have a table with a column that contains an array of values. By using lateral view explode, you can transform each element of the array into a separate row, repeating the other columns for each exploded value.

Here's an example query:

SELECT col1, exploded_value
FROM my_table
LATERAL VIEW explode(array_column) explodedTable AS exploded_value;

In this query, `my_table` is the table name, `col1` is a column from the table, and `array_column` is the column containing the array. The lateral view explode function unnests the array, and each exploded value is assigned to the alias `exploded_value`.