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Re:Announcing SQL Server on Linux by intrasight on Monday March 07, 2016 @08:11PM (#11242950)
SQL 2016 does JSON https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/jocapc/2015/05/16/json-supp...
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Re:Announcing SQL Server on Linux by philliphaydon on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @03:56AM (#11244190)
I wish people would stop saying this. The JSON support in SQL Server 2016 is far from being comparable to the JSON support in pgsql.
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Re:Announcing SQL Server on Linux by mmmBacon on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @09:46AM (#11245495)
Well actually it "supports" JSON as NVARCHAR. There is no JSON type and no JSONB type that supports indexing like in Postgres.
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Re:Announcing SQL Server on Linux by tracker1 on Tuesday March 08, 2016 @01:32AM (#11243842)
Nice to know, they query syntax is, unfortunately only slightly nicer than the XML options... at least at first glance.
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