NoSQL takes a variety of forms, each designed to address different challenges. Popular document databases are based on the open JSON standard and broadly try to get around the schema constraints of ...

Overview 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.

If an operation requires something other than an SQL/JSON array, but the operand is an SQL/JSON array, then the operand is unwrapped by converting its elements into an SQL/JSON sequence prior to ...

We currently wrap JSON_VALUE () in a CAST, but this has several issues: CAST applies generic string casting without taking into account that the property comes from JSON. While the standard way to ...

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 ...

Where (JSON_VALUE(LastUpdate, '$.IsPremium') = 'true') Order By JSON_VALUE(LastUpdate, '$.Name.Last') Because SQL Server doesn’t have a Boolean data type, I must test the IsPremium property against ...

While SQL has traditionally been used to query data stored in relational database management systems (RDBMS) according to a rigid schema of inter-related tables that contain rows and columns, ...