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SQL Server 2016 Developer's Guide

You're reading from   SQL Server 2016 Developer's Guide Build efficient database applications for your organization with SQL Server 2016

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786465344
Length 616 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Dejan Sarka Dejan Sarka
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Miloš Radivojević Miloš Radivojević
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William Durkin William Durkin
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to SQL Server 2016 FREE CHAPTER 2. Review of SQL Server Features for Developers 3. SQL Server Tools 4. Transact-SQL Enhancements 5. JSON Support in SQL Server 6. Stretch Database 7. Temporal Tables 8. Tightening the Security 9. Query Store 10. Columnstore Indexes 11. Introducing SQL Server In-Memory OLTP 12. In-Memory OLTP Improvements in SQL Server 2016 13. Supporting R in SQL Server 14. Data Exploration and Predictive Modeling with R in SQL Server

Chapter 5. JSON Support in SQL Server

In the last few years, JSON has been established as a standard format for data exchange among applications and services. XML is still the exchange standard (and will be), but many applications communicate by exchanging JSON data instead of XML documents. Therefore, the most important relational database management system products need to support JSON.

Two release cycles after the feature was requested by the community, Microsoft has implemented built-in JSON support in SQL Server 2016. The support is not as comprehensive as for XML, but for most databases and workloads, it will be quite fine.

This chapter explores how SQL Server stores and processes JSON data with a comprehensive comparison between JSON and XML support in SQL Server.

The most important actions related to JSON data in SQL Server are demonstrated in detail:

  • Formatting and exporting JSON data from SQL Server
  • Converting JSON data to a tabular format
  • Importing JSON data to...
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