JSON has stolen some of XML's thunder with features such as human and machine readability, a lightweight, compact text structure and support for many software and hardware platforms. JSON (JavaScript ...

With SQL Server 2016, it now makes sense to store JSON objects in your database (even though there’s no JSON datatype). Here’s how to query JSON properties to find the rows you want. It’s not unusual ...

You can run and debug into the samples by downloading the sample code from GitHub. Each section links to the source code specific to that section. EF8 requires the ...

Create an approximate index on a vector column to improve performance of nearest neighbors searches. To learn more about how vector indexing and vector search works, and the differences between exact ...

An update to the cardinality estimator feature in SQL Server 2022 will be one of the biggest changes to the database engine since its inception. Database engines like SQL Server are incredibly complex ...

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