JSON is currently one of the most commonly used data exchange formats. Most modern services return information formatted as JSON text; web browsers use information formatted as JSON. JSON is the ...

With SQL Server 2016, it now makes sense to store JSON objects in your database (even though there’s no JSON datatype). Here’s how to query JSON properties to find the rows you want.

In this final post of our four-part JSON series, we showcase the ability to format query results as JSON text using the FOR JSON clause. If you are familiar with the FOR XML clause, you will easily ...

Native support for JSON in the upcoming SQL Server 2016 was buried among the many goodies announced earlier this month for the flagship RDBMS, but it's the feature most requested by data developers, ...

SQL Server 2016 is expected to offer native support for working with JSON. The first iteration of this support will be released as part of SQL Server 2016’s CTP 2.

This way I cannot use JSON objects formatted in Sql Server without unescaping/reparsing. Is there some way to accept raw un-escaped text content? With FOR JSON clause I can fomat hierarchical JSON ...