Difference between JSON and SQL

Question

I\'m a newbie at web development, so here\'s a simple question. I\'ve been doing a few tutorials in Django, setting up an SQL database, which is all good. I have now come ac

Answer 1

They are 2 completely different things.

SQL is used to communicate with databases, usually to Create, Update and Delete data entries.

JSON provides a standardized object notation/structure to talk to web services.

Why standardized?

Because JSON is relatively easy to process both on the front end (with javascript) and the backend. With no-SQL databases becoming the norm, JSON/JSON-like documents/objects are being used in the database as well.