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 ...

In general, though, querying through JSON-dedicated functions and letting SQL Server do the parsing internally results in slightly faster code. The difference is even bigger if you add an index on ...

Small businesses can create and access an SQL database of their creation for as little as $4.99/month. This tutorial shows you how to use the Azure Portal to create a cloud-based SQL database with ...

Today’s README file explains how to create connection strings to SQL Server databases using Visual Studio’s built-in tools. To provide an example using real source, I created a simple Winforms ...

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 ...