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Database Animations: How SQL Server’s JSON Indexes Work

You can eat the cake of being able to store practically schema-less JSON blobs as part of each row, and have it too by querying specific values quickly. (The common phrase is to "have your cake and eat it too", but did you ever think about […]

Database Animations: How SQL Server’s JSON Indexes Work

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You can eat the cake of being able to store practically schema-less JSON blobs as part of each row, and have it too by querying specific values quickly.

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You can eat the cake of being able to store practically schema-less JSON blobs as part of each row, and have it too by querying specific values quickly. (The common phrase is to "have your cake and eat it too", but did you ever think about […] By popular demand, SQL Server 2025 added JSON indexes.

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By popular demand, SQL Server 2025 added JSON indexes.

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