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OPENJSON : Getting to the data, and the PATH – PART I

by Marty

measure twice, cut once.

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 : Getting to the data, and the PATH – PART I

by Marty

measure twice, cut once.

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

3 reads

OPENJSON, explicit schema and data type

by Marty

measure twice, cut once.

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

153 reads

OPENJSON – using an explicit schema. The WITH clause.

by Marty

measure twice, cut once.

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

120 reads

T-SQL Sequences and the OVER() clause

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Using a SEQUENCE object - in unusual ways!

2020-06-04

71 reads

OPENJSON – using the default schema to collect new information

by Marty

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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

116 reads

JSON data and a T-SQL variable.

by Marty

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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

by Marty

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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

147 reads

A trusty old friend – The BCP utility

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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

138 reads

Data Events in Australia and New Zealand in early 2020

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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

45 reads

measure twice, cut once.

OPENJSON : Getting to the data, and the PATH – PART I

OPENJSON : Getting to the data, and the PATH – PART I

OPENJSON, explicit schema and data type

OPENJSON – using an explicit schema. The WITH clause.

T-SQL Sequences and the OVER() clause

OPENJSON – using the default schema to collect new information

JSON data and a T-SQL variable.

JSON, SQL Server and Esacpe Characters of the non-printable kind

A trusty old friend – The BCP utility

Data Events in Australia and New Zealand in early 2020

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