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Mastering SQL Server 2017

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Product type Book
Published in Aug 2019
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781838983208
Pages pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (5):
Miloš Radivojević Miloš Radivojević
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Dejan Sarka Dejan Sarka
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William Durkin William Durkin
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Christian Cote Christian Cote
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Matija Lah Matija Lah
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Table of Contents (20) Chapters close

Title Page
Copyright Contributors About Packt Preface 1. Introduction to SQL Server 2017 2. SQL Server Tools 3. JSON Support in SQL Server 4. Stretch Database 5. Temporal Tables 6. Columnstore Indexes 7. SSIS Setup 8. What Is New in SSIS 2016 9. Key Components of a Modern ETL Solution 10. Dealing with Data Quality 11. Unleash the Power of SSIS Script Task and Component 12. On-Premises and Azure Big Data Integration 13. Extending SSIS Custom Tasks and Transformations 14. Scale Out with SSIS 2017 1. Other Books You May Enjoy

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 remain so), 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...
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