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Aveek Das
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Working with JSON data in Python

March 30, 2021 by

In this article, I am going to write about the various ways we can work with JSON data in Python. JSON stands for Java Script Object Notation and has become one of the most important data formats to store and transfer data across various systems. This is due to its easy-to-understand structure and also because it is very lightweight. You can easily write simple and nested data structures using JSON and it can be read by programs as well. In my opinion, JSON is much more human-readable as compared to XML, although both are used to store and transfer data. In modern web applications, by default JSON is being used to transfer information.

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Esat Erkec
How to read a file of JSON in SQL Server with OPENJSON function

How to parse JSON in SQL Server

September 15, 2020 by

In this article, we will learn how to parse and query JSON in SQL Server with the help of the OPENJSON function. Firstly, we will briefly look at the data structure of the JSON and then we will learn details of the parsing and querying JSON data using the OPENJSON function.

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Esat Erkec

How to use JSON data in Azure Machine Learning

November 9, 2018 by

Azure Machine Learning (also known as Azure ML) is cloud-based machine learning solution of Microsoft. Microsoft Azure Machine Learning is a fully-managed cloud-based service that provides the ability to create and train predictive analytic solutions. Another advantage of Azure ML is that you can access and easily make changes anywhere in machine learning models with help of Microsoft Azure Machine Learning Studio.

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Esat Erkec

How to use JSON data in SSRS

November 6, 2018 by

In this article, we will explore the concept of using JSON data in SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS). This usage concept will include a different approach than the usual methodologies because we will take advantage of SQL Server R service support.

What is JSON?

JSON is an abbreviation for JavaScriptObjectNotation. The main purpose of JSON data was to provide data transfer between server and web applications for JavaScript but today’s JSON is the most popular data interchange format. JSON offers two advantages to us. These are; light-weight text based format easily readable by humans. Currently, JSON is not only used in JavaScript applications, it is also used in all popular software programing languages like JavaScript, C++, C#, Perl, Java, Python, Php etc.

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Marko Zivkovic
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How to import/export JSON data using SQL Server 2016

March 7, 2017 by

JSON is an abbreviation for JavaScript Object Notation. JSON is very popular and currently the most commonly used data exchange format. Most modern web and mobile services return information formatted as JSON text, all database web services, web browsers (Firefox, Internet Explorer) return results formatted as JSON text or accept data formatted as JSON. Since external systems format information as JSON text, JSON is also stored in SQL Server 2016 as text. You can use standard NVARCHAR columns to store JSON data in SQL Server 2016.

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Manjuke Fernando

Native JSON Support in SQL Server 2016

January 6, 2017 by

With the introduction of SQL Server 2016, Microsoft introduced many new features which had taken SQL Server another step forward and they made sure that it stands in front among many major Relational Database Systems.

One such feature which has been lacking but desperately required was the native support towards JSON.

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Sifiso Ndlovu

Convert SQL Server results into JSON

July 12, 2016 by

In my article, Warehousing JSON Formatted Data in SQL Server 2016, we had a look at available T-SQL options for converting JSON data into rows and columns for the purposes of populating a SQL Server based data warehouse. The increased popularity of JSON in modern web applications may create a requirement for data teams to expose some of their data to client applications (i.e. reporting tools, web services etc.) in a JSON format. In this article we take a look at how such a requirement can be implemented by data teams using SQL Server 2016 FOR JSON clause

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