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Add support for BigQuery's RECORD field type

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#4,207 opened on Oct 2, 2019

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Description

Currently when you query a RECORD field type, you will get some weird object in the query output (see example). Instead we need to deconstruct it into separate columns (field.sub_field) like we do for MongoDB.

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Investigate how Redash handles MongoDB nested fields and apply similar logic to BigQuery RECORD fields.
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