Parse JSON in MySQL

Question

I need help on how to parse JSON data in MySQL.

I can parse a column named config containing data such as:

{\"encounterId\":\"f45bf821-98e1-4496-82ef         


        

Answer 1

Either you could use a cumbersome MySQL UDF for parsing JSON for MySQL like for example https://github.com/ChrisCinelli/mysql_json

...but a better way would be to pull out the JSON and parse it in your app, and perhaps convert the data to a more suited schema for your intentions.