1. Meet JSON In SQL Server 2016 Russ Loski Preparations:
Have Visual Studio open with a console project created with JSON file. Clear the existing file.
Open the JSON sample and have the SQL files displaying.
Russ Loski

2. Russ Loski SQL Server ETL developer from the Dallas Fort Worth area
Member of the North Texas SQL Server Users Group
Curious about structured data
Regular speaker at SQL Saturdays
Grand dad for active 5 year old

3. Structured Or Not Structured
Structure from none to RDMS

4. Structured Or Not Structured
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<catalog>
<book id="bk101">
<author>Gambardella, Matthew</author>
<title>XML Developer's Guide</title>
<genre>Computer</genre>
<price>44.95</price>
<publish_date>
</publish_date>
<description>An in-depth look at creating applications with XML.</description>
</book>
<book id="bk102"> <author>Ralls, Kim</author> <title>Midnight Rain</title> <genre>Fantasy</genre> <price>5.95</price> <publish_date> </publish_date> <description>A former architect battles corporate zombies, an evil sorceress, and her own childhood to become queen of the world.</description> </book>

5. Structured Or Not Structured
policyID,statecode,county,eq_site_limit,hu_site_limit,fl_site_limit,fr_site_limit,tiv_2011,tiv_2012,eq_site_deductible,hu_site_deductible,fl_site_deductible,fr_site_deductible,point_latitude,point_longitude,line,construction,point_granularity
119736,FL,CLAY COUNTY,498960,498960,498960,498960,498960, ,0,9979.2,0,0, , ,Residential,Masonry,1
448094,FL,CLAY COUNTY, , , , , , ,0,0,0,0, , ,Residential,Masonry,3
206893,FL,CLAY COUNTY, , , , , , ,0,0,0,0, , ,Residential,Wood,1
333743,FL,CLAY COUNTY,0, ,0,0, , ,0,0,0,0, , ,Residential,Wood,3
172534,FL,CLAY COUNTY,0, ,0, , , ,0,0,0,0, , ,Residential,Wood,1

6. Structured Or Not Structured
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7. Structured Or Not Structured
Structure from none to RDMS

8. Structured Or Not Structured
Images
Printed Books
Book on line
Web Page
Web Page w/ Tables
Comma Delimited
Structure from none to RDMS
SQL Server provides means for working with XML. It even will let you work with comma delimited files.
What SQL Server 2016 is the ability to work with JSON. Also, SQL Server 2016 can parse comma delimited variables strings and column strings, but that is for another day.
JSON
XML {
"name"="Russ",
"location"="Tyler" }
OLTP DB with RDMS
Pure Relational model

9. Microsoft Connect
What is JSON?

10. Agenda What is JSON and why is it important Reading JSON in SQL Server
Writing JSON in SQL Server

11. What is JSON JavaScript Object Notation
Lightweight data format akin to XML
Self-describing
Converts directly to JavaScript objects
Easy to work with in JavaScript than other formats
Provide definition
What is JSON?

12. Simple JSON
{"employees":[     {"firstName":"John", "lastName":"Doe"},     {"firstName":"Anna", "lastName":"Smith"},     {"firstName":"Peter", "lastName":"Jones"} ]}
This examples comes from
What is JSON?

13. JSON Examples – Data Types
Numbers: 1, 2, 3.4 – No quotes
Strings: "test" , "1", "true" – Double quotes
Boolean: true, false – No quotes
Array: [ , ] – Square brackets surrounding comma delimited list
Object: {"name1":"value1", "name2":"value2"}
Null: null – This indicates empty item.
What is JSON?

14. JSON Examples - Arrays [ 1 , 2, 3, 4, 5]
[ "Russ" , "Gail" , "Don" , "Julie"]
[ {"phoneType" : "cell" , "number" : " " } ,
{"phoneType" : "home", "number" : " " } ]
[ 1, "Russ", { "address1" : "444 Main", "city" : "Tyler" } ]
You can have arrays of any type. And the array does need to have items of the same type.
What is JSON?

15. Why JSON? Agile. No structure up front Light. Not the tag structure
My focus in this slide is not to argue for or against JSON. It is simply to repeat some of the arguments for JSON.

16. Reading JSON in SQL Server 2016
Reading JSON into row set
Extracting single value from JSON
Identifying JSON
Reading JSON

17. JSON Data Type? No JSON data type
Use string (varchar, nvarchar up to max)
Richer than XML support in early 2000s
Reading JSON

18. Reading JSON into Row Set
OPENJSON (
NVARCHAR Column/Variable/Constant ,
JSON Path Expression )
Reading JSON

19. OpenJSON Examples SELECT * FROM OPENJSON (@var, N'$')
SELECT * FROM tbl OUTER APPLY OPENJSON(tbl.Col, N'$.property') v
SELECT * FROM tbl OUTER APPLY
OPENJSON(tbl.Col, N'$.property)
WITH (
Prop1 VARCHAR(20)
, Prop2 INT N'$.OtherProperty'
, Prop3 date N'strict $.Prop3'
) as v
Reading JSON

20. Reading value from JSON
JSON_Value (
NVARCHAR Column/Variable/Constant ,
JSON Path Expression )
Reading JSON

21. Reading JSON document from JSON
JSON_Query (
NVARCHAR Column/Variable/Constant ,
JSON Path Expression )
Reading JSON

22. JSON_Value/JSON_Query Examples
SELECT JSON_Value N'$.property')
SELECT JSON_Value( tbl.Col, N'$.property')
FROM tbl
SELECT JSON_Query N'$.property')
SELECT JSON_Query( tbl.Col, N'$.property')
Reading JSON

23. Demo
Reading JSON
Reading JSON

24. Writing JSON FOR JSON AUTO/PATH Options: Writing JSON
INCLUDE_NULL_VALUES
WITHOUT_ARRAY_WRAPPER
ROOT('root')
Writing JSON

25. Demo FOR JSON Writing JSON
The query that I use displays sales orders from the Adventureworks database. I deliberately sort the output in order to demonstrate that order matters for FOR JSON AUTO
I think that I will have the entire query formatted almost the way that I want. Change the table name aliases using the design tool. The order of the tables in the join matters for how the JSON is formatted.
Writing JSON

26. Use Cases for JSON One-off queries Analysis of JSON data
ETL. Loading JSON data into structured database
Closing?

27. References https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/dn921897.aspx
the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly/

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