When Is It Appropriate To Store JSON in SQL Server?
Every once in a while I hear of some technologist say that relational databases are dead; instead, a non-table based NoSQL storage format is the way of the future....
2017-03-14
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Bert Wagner
The Ultimate SQL Server JSON Cheat Sheet
This post is a reference of my examples for processing JSON data in SQL Server. For more detailed explanations of these functions, please see my post series on JSON...
2017-03-07
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JSON Support Is The Best New Developer Feature in SQL 2016 — Part 4: Performance Comparisons
This is the fourth article in my series about learning how to use SQL Server 2016's new JSON functions. If you haven't already, you can read Part 1?—?Parsing JSON,...
2017-02-21
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How SQL 2016's JSON Functionality Will Make You Want To Use JSON
This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday prompt. T-SQL Tuesday was created by Adam Machanic and is a way for SQL users to share ideas about...
2017-02-14
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JSON Support Is The Best New Developer Feature in SQL 2016 — Part 3: Updating, Adding, and Deleting…
This is the third article in my series about learning how to use SQL Server 2016's new JSON functions. If you haven't already, you can read Part 1?—?Parsing JSON...
2017-02-07
23 reads
JSON Support Is The Best New Developer Feature in SQL 2016 — Part 2: Creating JSON
This is the second article in my series about learning how to use SQL Server 2016's new JSON functions. If you haven't already, you can read Part 1?—?Parsing JSON.
Part...
2017-01-31
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JSON Support Is The Best New Developer Feature in SQL 2016 — Overview Part 1: Parsing JSON
As a developer my favorite new feature of SQL Server 2016 is JSON support.
I love JSON in SQL because I already love JSON everywhere outside of SQL: it uses...
2017-01-24
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Present Like Nobody's Watching
Last week I presented my session High Performance SSRS at the inaugural GroupBy Conference. It was an incredibly fun experience getting to present a topic I'm excited about as...
2017-01-17
6 reads
The Most Lacking Feature In SSRS (7 years and no fix?)
This post is a response to this month's T-SQL Tuesday prompt. T-SQL Tuesday was created by Adam Machanic and is a way for SQL users to share ideas about...
2017-01-10
5 reads
Epic Life Quests
It is easy to get caught up in the daily details of life and not take the time to reflect on longer term goals and accomplishments.
Inspired by Brent Ozar...
2017-01-03
9 reads
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Question of the Day
Fun with JSON I
I have some data in a table:
CREATE TABLE #test_data
(
id INT PRIMARY KEY,
name VARCHAR(100),
birth_date DATE
);
-- Step 2: Insert rows
INSERT INTO #test_data
VALUES
(1, 'Olivia', '2025-01-05'),
(2, 'Emma', '2025-03-02'),
(3, 'Liam', '2025-11-15'),
(4, 'Noah', '2025-12-22');
If I run this query, how many rows are returned?
SELECT *
FROM OPENJSON(
(
SELECT t.* FROM #test_data AS t FOR JSON PATH
)
) t; See possible answers