OPENJSON : Getting to the data, and the PATH – PART II
We’ve looked at getting pulling data from a JSON document into relational table format using an explicit schema that was defined in the WITH clause of the OPENJSON table...
2020-06-07
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OPENJSON : Getting to the data, and the PATH – PART II
We’ve looked at getting pulling data from a JSON document into relational table format using an explicit schema that was defined in the WITH clause of the OPENJSON table...
2020-06-07
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OPENJSON – using an explicit schema. The WITH clause.
G’day, Previously, we have looked at using OPENJSON to gain knowledge about the JSON document that we have presented to the function. A bit like this Notice that we...
2020-06-05
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OPENJSON, explicit schema and data type
Back in our last instalment, we looked at OPENJSON and how we can get data into a tabular format from a JSON document. Readers may have noticed that we...
2020-06-05
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2020-06-04
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OPENJSON – using the default schema to collect new information
We’ve looked at reading JSON from disk and also verifying that a string we have contains valid JSON data. But, naturally, we’d like to do more than that. Well,...
2020-05-27
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JSON data and a T-SQL variable.
G’day, You may have noticed when looking at FOR JSON AUTO or FOR JSON PATH that both clauses result in one single column that contains a JSON string. But,...
2020-05-23
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JSON, SQL Server and Esacpe Characters of the non-printable kind
G’day, We observed in a previous installment that JSON uses the backslash character “” as the escape character. However, what happens if we actually want a backslash in our...
2020-05-20
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Data Privacy – Playing your part
Tuesday 28th January 2020 was “Data Privacy Day 2020” Some may refer to this as Data Protection Day, but it is really just a day to draw attention to...
2020-03-10 (first published: 2020-02-03)
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A trusty old friend – The BCP utility
One of the requirements that springs up around data stores – regardless of if they are relational, not relational, cloud based or some other variety is (unsurprisingly) the need...
2020-03-08
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The ##MS_DatabaseConnector## User
On SQL Server 2025, I run this code as a sysadmin:
CREATE LOGIN Demo WITH PASSWORD = 'Demo1234567' GO ALTER SERVER ROLE ##MS_DatabaseConnector## ADD MEMBER Demo GOI then login as Demo and run this:
USE sandbox go SELECT CURRENT_USERWhat is returned? See possible answers