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SQL Server 2017 Developer???s Guide

You're reading from  SQL Server 2017 Developer???s Guide

Product type Book
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788476195
Pages 816 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages

Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Title Page
Copyright and Credits
Dedication
Packt Upsell
Contributors
Preface
1. Introduction to SQL Server 2017 2. Review of SQL Server Features for Developers 3. SQL Server Tools 4. Transact-SQL and Database Engine Enhancements 5. JSON Support in SQL Server 6. Stretch Database 7. Temporal Tables 8. Tightening Security 9. Query Store 10. Columnstore Indexes 11. Introducing SQL Server In-Memory OLTP 12. In-Memory OLTP Improvements in SQL Server 2017 13. Supporting R in SQL Server 14. Data Exploration and Predictive Modeling with R 15. Introducing Python 16. Graph Database 17. Containers and SQL on Linux 1. Other Books You May Enjoy Index

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