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In instances where tables within SQL Server contain JSON objects within a column you can use the import SQL query editor feature in Sisense to flatten these objects into individual fields.

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For example:

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Can be turned into:

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Answer

 

To accomplish this, SQL Server has native functions that are capable of parsing json objects and flattening them into individual fields.

The below code uses the JSON_Value extracts a scalar value from a JSON string in which the first parameter takes an expression which is typically the name of a variable or column that contains JSON text. The second parameter takes a JSON path that specifies the property to extract. The default path mode is lax mode, which takes the syntax '$.<keyname>'.

Below is the SQL used to flatten the JSON values in the sample data.

Here is the SQL code you can use:

select SalesOrderNumber

, JSON_Value(JSONValue,'$.CustomerID') as CustomerID

, JSON_Value(JSONValue,'$.OrderDate') as OrderDate

, JSON_Value(JSONValue,'$.TotalDue') as TotalDue

, JSON_Value(JSONValue,'$.ShipMethodID') as ShipMethodID

, JSON_Value(JSONValue,'$.TerritoryID') as TerritoryID

, JSON_Value(JSONValue,'$.SalesPersonID') as SalesPersonID 

from OrderHeaderJSON

Other useful functions regarding working with JSON in SQL Server can be found here:

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‎10-16-2021 06:22 AM
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