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. SQL Server 2016 provides ...

WAF vendors overlooked JSON in SQL. Starting around 10 years ago, database engines started to add support for working with JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) data.

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.

This paper introduces a tool designed to enhance query accuracy in relational databases by automatically detecting and correcting typographical errors in Structured Query Language (SQL) functions and ...

SQL Server 2008 provides a minimal set of tools — cursors and WHILE loops — to accomplish this task. I’ll take a closer look at each option and explain why it’s difficult to pinpoint which ...

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.

EF 9.0 brought experimental support for the Azure SQL JSON data type (#32150, Azure SQL docs), which is still in preview.As the Azure SQL support will go GA soon, we need to bring the feature out of ...