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 clearly an important feature for data developers ...

However, SQL Server 2016 also fully supports the rowset-to-JSON query scenario when you write a regular T-SQL query and then map results to JSON objects via the FOR JSON clause. For more information ...

Playing catch-up. Microsoft is introducing other capabilities to SQL Server 2025 to facilitate the development of AI-based applications, including JSON support, a Python driver, and change event ...

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.

Apart from the AI capabilities, SQL Server 2025 also comes with significant developer improvements. This latest release will offer native JSON support, allowing developers to easily validate and ...

MongoDB sends JSON objects over a binary protocol, by way of a command-line interface or a language library. Some NoSQL products can use SQL-like syntax to work with data, but only to a limited ...

WAF vendors overlooked JSON in SQL Starting around 10 years ago, database engines started to add support for working with JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) data.