How can write queries in MySQL that can parse JSON data in a column?

Question

I have a table in MySQL that has a column that store JSON objects. How can I easily run queries that can have some of the JSON fields in the WHERE clause?

EX: Wi

Answer 1

You could use json_extract (5.7 up). https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.7/en/json-search-functions.html#function_json-extract

SELECT user_id, json_data
FROM articles 
WHERE json_extract(json_data, '$.title') LIKE '%CPU%';