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Anup Sivadas is a Principal Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services(AWS) and also have lead the Database Engineering initiatives for Expedia, Inc. (http://www.expedia.com/), having IT experience of more than 20 years. Anup is an active blogger with SQLSailor.com, and can also be found on MSDN SQLServer forums and BeyondRelational.com. He has handled multiple SQLServer projects for various fortune 500 companies, and gained enrich proficiency within Database Administration, Database Architecture for Cloud, Consulting, Virtualization, Build, and Production Support activities.

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Creating JSON I

On SQL Server 2025, what happens when I run this code: 

SELECT JSON_OBJECTAGG( 'City':'Denver')
GO

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