JSON_TABLE
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
Some dialects ship with a built-in standard SQL table-valued function called JSON_TABLE, which can be used to unnest a JSON data structure into a SQL table.
SELECT *
FROM json_table(
'[{"a":5,"b":{"x":10}},{"a":7,"b":{"y":20}}]',
'$[*]'
COLUMNS (
id FOR ORDINALITY,
a INT,
x INT PATH '$.b.x',
y INT PATH '$.b.y'
)
) AS t
create.select()
.from(jsonTable(
json("[{\"a\":5,\"b\":{\"x\":10}},"
+ "{\"a\":7,\"b\":{\"y\":20}}]"),
"$[*]")
.column("id").forOrdinality()
.column("a", INTEGER)
.column("x", INTEGER).path("$.b.x")
.column("y", INTEGER).path("$.b.y")
.as("t"))
.fetch();
The result would look like this:
+----+---+----+----+ | ID | A | X | Y | +----+---+----+----+ | 1 | 5 | 10 | | | 2 | 7 | | 20 | +----+---+----+----+
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
selectFrom(jsonTable(json("[{\"a\":5,\"b\":{\"x\":10}}]"), "$[*]").column("id").forOrdinality().column("a", INTEGER).column("x", INTEGER).path("$.b.x").as("t"))
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
DB2
SELECT t.id, t.a, t.x
FROM JSON_TABLE(
'[{"a":5,"b":{"x":10}}]',
'$[*]'
COLUMNS (
id FOR ORDINALITY,
a integer,
x integer PATH '$.b.x'
)
ERROR ON ERROR
) t
Hana
SELECT t.id, t.a, t.x
FROM JSON_TABLE(
'[{"a":5,"b":{"x":10}}]',
'$[*]'
COLUMNS (
id FOR ORDINALITY,
a integer PATH '$.a',
x integer PATH '$.b.x'
)
) t
MariaDB, MySQL
SELECT t.id, t.a, t.x
FROM JSON_TABLE(
'[{"a":5,"b":{"x":10}}]',
'$[*]'
COLUMNS (
id FOR ORDINALITY,
a int PATH '$.a',
x int PATH '$.b.x'
)
) t
Oracle
SELECT t.id, t.a, t.x
FROM JSON_TABLE(
'[{"a":5,"b":{"x":10}}]',
'$[*]'
COLUMNS (
id FOR ORDINALITY,
a number(10),
x number(10) PATH '$.b.x'
)
) t
Postgres, YugabyteDB
SELECT t.id, t.a, t.x
FROM (
SELECT
o id,
cast((jsonb_path_query_first(j, cast('$.a' as jsonpath))->>0) as INT) a,
cast((jsonb_path_query_first(j, cast('$.b.x' as jsonpath))->>0) as INT) x
FROM jsonb_path_query(CAST('[{"a":5,"b":{"x":10}}]' AS jsonb), cast('$[*]' as jsonpath)) WITH ORDINALITY AS t(j, o)
) t
SQLServer
SELECT t.id, t.a, t.x
FROM (
SELECT
row_number() OVER (ORDER BY (
SELECT 1
)) id,
a,
x
FROM openjson('[{"a":5,"b":{"x":10}}]', '$[*]') WITH (
a int,
x int '$.b.x'
) t
) t
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