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Videos on UDFs in Athena

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Videos on UDFs in Athena - Amazon Athena

Watch the following videos to learn more about using UDFs in Athena.

Video: Introducing User Defined Functions (UDFs) in Amazon Athena

The following video shows how you can use UDFs in Amazon Athena to redact sensitive information.

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The syntax in this video is prerelease, but the concepts are the same. Use Athena without the AmazonAthenaPreviewFunctionality workgroup.

Video: Translate, analyze, and redact text fields using SQL queries in Amazon Athena

The following video shows how you can use UDFs in Amazon Athena together with other AWS services to translate and analyze text.

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The syntax in this video is prerelease, but the concepts are the same. For the correct syntax, see the related blog post Translate, redact, and analyze text using SQL functions with Amazon Athena, Amazon Translate, and Amazon Comprehend on the AWS Machine Learning Blog.

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