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 ...

JSON has stolen some of XML's thunder with features such as human and machine readability, a lightweight, compact text structure and support for many software and hardware platforms. JSON (JavaScript ...

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In SQL (specifically in Azure SQL Database and SQL Server 2025+), the JSON datatype stores structured JSON values as binary. Though stored and queried as structured data, SQL still treats it as a ...