OPENJSON : Getting to the data, and the PATH – PART I
Recently we reviewed FOR JSON PATH. That was used for shaping tabular data (data that comes directly from a SQL table) into a JSON document. The PATH we are...
2020-06-07
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measure twice, cut once.
OPENJSON : Getting to the data, and the PATH – PART I
Recently we reviewed FOR JSON PATH. That was used for shaping tabular data (data that comes directly from a SQL table) into a JSON document. The PATH we are...
2020-06-07
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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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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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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
2,159 reads
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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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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Data Events in Australia and New Zealand in early 2020
Over the course of the next few weeks there are some significant events taking place that reflect technologies on the Microsoft data platform and beyond. Thursday 13th and 14th...
2020-02-12
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Question of the Day
Using CHOOSE()
We have this code that sets some status values and then queries them using the CHOOSE() function in SQL Server 2025.
CREATE TABLE Status
(
StatusID INT,
StatusDescription VARCHAR(20)
);
GO
INSERT dbo.Status
(
StatusID,
StatusDescription
)
VALUES
(0, 'Uncategorized'),
(1, 'Active'),
(2, 'Inactive'),
(3, 'Temp');
GO
SELECT CHOOSE(StatusID, 'Unknown', 'Active', 'Inactive', 'Temporary')
FROM Status;
When the SELECT runs, what is returned? See possible answers