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JSON_ARRAY

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

The JSON_ARRAY function is used to produce simple JSON arrays from scalar values, without aggregation(see also JSON_ARRAYAGG).

SELECT json_array(author.first_name, author.last_name)
FROM author
 
create.select(jsonArray(AUTHOR.FIRST_NAME, AUTHOR.LAST_NAME))
      .from(AUTHOR)
      .fetch();

The result would look like this:

+----------------------+
| json_array           |
+----------------------+
| ["Paulo", "Coelho"]  |
| ["George", "Orwell"] |
+----------------------+

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

jsonArray(val(1), val(2))

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

Aurora Postgres, Postgres, YugabyteDB

json_build_array(CAST(1 AS int), CAST(2 AS int))

BigQuery, DB2, DuckDB, H2, MariaDB, MySQL, Oracle, SQLite

json_array(1, 2)

ClickHouse

toJSONString(tuple(1, 2))

CockroachDB

json_build_array(CAST(1 AS int4), CAST(2 AS int4))

Snowflake

array_construct(coalesce(
  to_variant(1),
  parse_json('null')
), coalesce(
  to_variant(2),
  parse_json('null')
))

SQLServer

json_modify(
  json_modify('[]', 'append $', 1),
  'append $',
  2
)

Trino

CAST(ARRAY[
  CAST(1 AS json),
  CAST(2 AS json)
] AS json)

ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, Derby, Exasol, Firebird, HSQLDB, Hana, Informix, MemSQL, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, Sybase, Teradata, Vertica

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