If you want to play with SQL Server’s JSON support (or the other big new feature in SQL Server 2016, temporal tables), you can download the Developer edition of SQL Server 2016. JSON support consists ...

Saving the event as JSON is an option possible on any version of SQL Server, but reading JSON effectively, when large numbers of events are in store, might be unsustainable. With the native JSON ...

CData JDBC Driver connects to JSON by exposing them as relational SQL models. This server wraps that driver and makes JSON data available through a simple MCP interface, so LLMs can retrieve live ...

SQL Server 2025 is supposed to go into public preview soon, so at that point we should be able to run tests against it (e.g. via docker on Linux). We should also make sure that current test coverage ...

SQL Server 2025 is also introducing a native JSON datatype, which should improve performance over the current approach of storing JSON data in the VARCHAR(MAX) field.

Along with built-in AI capabilities, this release makes SQL Server 2025 the most significant release for SQL developers since the introduction of SQL Server 2016 a decade ago. Enhancing data ...