With SQL Server 2016, it now makes sense to store JSON objects in your database (even though there’s no JSON datatype). Here’s how to query JSON properties to find the rows you want. It’s not unusual ...

Native support for JSON in the upcoming SQL Server 2016 was buried among the many goodies announced earlier this month for the flagship RDBMS, but it's clearly an important feature for data developers ...

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Couchbase Inc., long the champion of its "world's highest-performing NoSQL distributed database platform," has apparently decided that this SQL stuff isn't so bad after all, having announced a new ...

Azure SQL has introduced a new JSON data type; this replaces the previous JSON support, which used nvarchar(*) to represent JSON documents (SQL Server 2025 - still in preview - introduces the same ...

#36456 changed the SQL Server provider to use the new SQL Server 2025 RETURNING clause for JSON_VALUE(). At the time of writing (pre-rc.1), while the SQL Server 2025 preview (CTP2.1) supports it, ...