Now let's talk about unnesting.
The UNNEST
function takes an array and returns a value table of the array's element type. Whereas most BigQuery tables are SQL tables defined as a collection of columns, a value table has rows of some value type.
For numbers_array
, UNNEST(numbers_array)
returns a value table whose value type is INT64
, since numbers_array
is an array with an element type of INT64
. This value table contains all of the elements in numbers_array
for the current row from t1