Imagine your SQL assistant is a rocket, blasting through complex queries. Then one day you realize you're using rocket fuel to fetch a grocery list. It’s exciting, until the fuel bill arrives.

With JSON now the default format for moving data between clients and servers, SQL Server adds JSON support to make it easier to get your data out of the database and down to the client. SQL Server ...

A common SQL habit is to use SELECT * on a query, because it’s tedious to list all the columns you need. Plus, sometimes those columns may change over time, so why not just do things the easy way? But ...