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

We have used a modified version of XML for exactly the purpose you decribe for seven or eight years and it works great. Our customers' form needs are so diverse that we could never keep up with a table/column approach. We are too far down the XML road to change very easily but I think JSON would work as well and maybe evan better.

Reporting is no problem with a couple of good parsing functions and I would defy anyone to find a significant difference in performance between our reporting/analytics and a table/column solution to this need.