SQL Server 2016 lets you treat JSON objects like rows in a table ... the resulting table has columns (called key, value and type) with one row in the table for each property in the object. Table 1 ...

Unlike the XML support in SQL Server, JSON support does not include a JSON data type -- you just store JSON objects in a character column (probably defined as VarChar(max)). However, even without a ...

In addition to the data type, Microsoft plans to add native JSON indexing across both Azure SQL and SQL Server, which should also help the performance of those JSON queries. There are a lot of ...