Storing JSON in an msSQL database?

Question

I\'m developing a form generator, and wondering if it would be bad mojo to store JSON in an SQL database?

I want to keep my database & tables simple, so I was go

Answer 1

I think it not an optimal idea to store object data in a string in SQL. You have to do transformation outside of SQL in order to parse it. That presents a performance issue and you lose the leverage of using SQL native data parsing capability. A better way would be to store JSON as an XML datatype in SQL. This way, you kill two birds with one stone: You don't have to create shit load of tables and still get all the native querying benefits of SQL.

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