SQL Server 2016 provides new support for working with JSON objects. In a previous column, I discussed how to generate JSON from SQL queries. This column looks at the reverse process: accepting JSON ...

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. It’s not unusual ...

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 simple JSON operator, @> in this case, which checks whether the right JSON is contained in the left one, above, threw the WAF into a loop and allowed us to supply malicious SQLi payloads ...

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 ...

There are situations in which you need to individually handle each row in a result set. SQL Server 2008 provides a minimal set of tools — cursors and WHILE loops — to accomplish this task.