SQL Server 2016 lets you treat JSON objects like rows in a table, allowing you to use data from AJAX queries in joins, updates and any other SQL statement you can think of.

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.

JSON is currently one of the most commonly used data exchange formats. Most modern services return information formatted as JSON text; web browsers use information formatted as JSON. JSON is the ...

Modern databases, such as PostgreSQL, natively support JSON as data values that can be queried. This capability uses JSON-specific operators, including an operator to test for key presence. Imperva ...

Security researchers have developed a generic technique for SQL injection that bypasses multiple web application firewalls (WAFs). At the core of the issue was WAF vendors failing to add support ...

In SQL Server 2025 (and an upcoming update of Azure SQL), the JSON_VALUE () function will be improved to support a RETURNING clause, allowing specifying the data type coming out of the JSON property.

Here you can see the main difference between traditional relational-only and document-only systems and the hybrid model that SQL Server 2016 provides. In SQL Server 2016, you can combine both scalar ...