SQL Server 2016 lets you treat JSON objects like rows in a table, allowing you to use data from AJAX queries in joins, updates and any other SQL statement you can think of. SQL Server 2016 provides ...

"Relational SQL operates over tables and columns and needs a strict schema," Biyikoglu said. "With N1QL, all queries are executed over JSON data in Couchbase Server. You don't have to deal with a ...

SQL vs. N1QL: A Sample WHERE Query to Retrieve New Books (source: Couchbase) Couchbase exec Cihan Biyikoglu explained the idea in a blog post last June. "Relational SQL operates over tables and ...

Running a multi-channel loyalty and engagement platform requires a lot of data. With 18,000 loyalty programs running across Web, mobile, social, and email channels, the folks at PunchTab are up to ...

For more than 40 years, SQL has provided a standard way to query structured data. However, much of the data being generated and stored today exists in semi-structured formats, like JSON, which doesn’t ...

Effectively, those methods can become just thin wrappers around SQL queries. If you want to play with SQL Server’s JSON support (or the other big new feature in SQL Server 2016, temporal tables), you ...