JSON is everywhere nowadays: config files, web APIs, date formats, and more. It’s also proved popular with toolmakers, who have created many different programs to read, modify, and process JSON for a ...

SQL Server's OpenJson function will let you dismantle JSON structures into relational tables, including tables with foreign/primary key relationships. As I noted in an earlier column, JSON is great ...

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 ...