This became even easier in SQL Server 2005 with the advent of the XML data type and XQuery. You still need to construct and shred the XML data before you can use it; this is functional but not simple.

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When would you save data in SQL Server as JSON? A relational database table is articulated on a fixed number of columns and each column has its own data type, such as strings of variable or fixed ...

A few years ago, teams had to write SQL queries and code to extract useful information from large swathes of data. Today, all they have to do is type in a question. The underlying language model ...

If your business uses relational databases to store data, it helps to use the SQL SELECT command with the INTO clause to create new tables from query results. This method isn't ANSI-standard SQL ...