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 ...

The same can't be said for other complex types such as XML, CLR and Spatial that are still on the waiting list. In this column, I focused on the JSON-to-rowset scenario. However, SQL Server 2016 also ...

For more than 40 years, SQL has provided a standard way to query structured data. However, much of the data being generated and stored today exists in semi-structured formats, like JSON, which doesn’t ...