Athena: Extracting data from JSON

Suppose you have a table in Athena and its column contain JSON data. How can you extract the individual keys? In the example, the table has column “fixedproperties” which contain JSON data –

How can you display the data is below format?

select
    json_extract(fixedproperties, '$.objectId') as object_id,
    json_extract(fixedproperties, '$.custId') as cust_id,
    json_extract(fixedproperties, '$.score') as score
from json_demo;

For more examples on extracting data from JSON refer to https://docs.aws.amazon.com/athena/latest/ug/extracting-data-from-JSON.html

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