SQL Server 2016 adds new support for the JSON format when retrieving rows from a database table. Because most Web Services now return data in the JSON format, this support can simplify those Action ...

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 ...

Security researchers have developed a generic technique for SQL injection that bypasses multiple web application firewalls (WAFs). At the core of the issue was WAF vendors failing to add support ...

SQL Server 2025 is also introducing a native JSON datatype, which should improve performance over the current approach of storing JSON data in the VARCHAR(MAX) field.

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 ...

Couchbase Inc., long the champion of its "world's highest-performing NoSQL distributed database platform," has apparently decided that this SQL stuff isn't so bad after all, having announced a new ...

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 ...