Sources are heterogeneous and SQL Server allows various types of manipulations and one of the interesting feature in SQL Server 2016 is Querying data of JSON Format. There are four basic syntax which we can use against a JSON data type. We can demonstrate the use of these syntax with a simple scenario, first off I will define a simple JSON array and walk through each syntax one by one. Use of ISJSON() ISJSON() syntax is much similar to the ISNUMERIC() where the latter one checks for a numeric data type and outputs one if it’s true like wise ISJSON() out puts one if the evaluated value is in valid JSON Format. ...