

I am the creator of one of the biggest free online collections of articles on a single topic, with his 50-part series on SQL Server Always On Availability Groups.īased on my contribution to the SQL Server community, I have been recognized as the prestigious Best Author of the Year continuously in 2019, 2020, and 2021 (2nd Rank) at SQLShack and the MSSQLTIPS champions award in 2020. I published more than 650 technical articles on MSSQLTips, SQLShack, Quest, CodingSight, and SeveralNines. I am the author of the book " DP-300 Administering Relational Database on Microsoft Azure". Hi! I am Rajendra Gupta, Database Specialist and Architect, helping organizations implement Microsoft SQL Server, Azure, Couchbase, AWS solutions fast and efficiently, fix related issues, and Performance Tuning with over 14 years of experience. Similarly, we can access the second record using the employees argument To retrieve the first record, we use employees argument We can note the array is enclosed in a square bracket In this example, we require to retrieve the first JSON object from the key.Ī variable contains an array for the “employees” key

In the below example, we have a key (Name),Īnd its value is a JSON object (nested JSON) In JSON, each object is enclosed by curly brackets(). For example “Name”:”Rajendra”īefore we go further, I will give a small overview of JSON object and array. We can have a string, object, array, Boolean or number data format in a valueĮach key should use colon (:) to segregate from the values.

Server JSON functions: a bridge between NoSQL and relational worlds for more detailsĮach key should be enclosed in a double-quote It is a bridge between No-SQL and relational databases. It becomes necessary for SQL database administrators as well to understand JSON and use SQL Server function in These NoSQL databases primarily uses JSON structuredĭata. If you are familiar with Amazon Web Service, DynamoDB, MongoDB, Couchbaseĭatabases, you should be familiar with the JSON documents. JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is an accessible format for representing data in a structured way. In this article, we will explore JSON_QUERY() functions in SQL Server to extract JSON objects and array from the
