Dino Esposito explains JSON-to-rowset native support in SQL Server 2016 and provides a realistic perspective of data query when you have JSON data stored in the database.

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.

VARRAY In SQL Server, there isn't direct support for VARRAYs (variable-size arrays) as you would find in Oracle. However, if you need to handle an ordered collection of elements associated with a ...

Learn about JavaScript Object Notation and JSON objects and arrays, including how and why they're used. Also, find out how JSON compares to HTML and XML.