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JSON_TABLE
Øystein Grøvlen
Optimizer Geek
Oracle
April 24, 2018
The Best of Both Worlds

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JSON Data Type
CREATE TABLE t1(json_col JSON);
INSERT INTO t1 VALUES (
'{ "people": [
{ "name":"John Smith", "address":"780 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103"},
{ "name":"Sally Brown", "address":"75 37th Ave S, St Cloud, MN 94103"},
{ "name":"John Johnson", "address":"1262 Roosevelt Trail, Raymond, ME 04071"}
] }'
);
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JSON_TABLE
SELECT people.*
FROM t1,
JSON_TABLE(json_col, '$.people[*]' COLUMNS (
name VARCHAR(40) PATH '$.name',
address VARCHAR(100) PATH '$.address')) people;
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Convert JSON documents to relational tables
name address
John Smith 780 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103
Sally Brown 75 37th Ave S, St Cloud, MN 9410
John Johnson 1262 Roosevelt Trail, Raymond, ME 04071

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JSON_TABLE
SELECT people.*
FROM t1,
JSON_TABLE(json_col, '$.people[*]' COLUMNS (
name VARCHAR(40) PATH '$.name',
address VARCHAR(100) PATH '$.address')) people;
WHERE people.name LIKE 'John%';
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Filter JSON data
name address
John Smith 780 Mission St, San Francisco, CA 94103
John Johnson 1262 Roosevelt Trail, Raymond, ME 04071

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Construct a New JSON Document
SELECT JSON_OBJECT("people",
JSON_ARRAYAGG(JSON_OBJECT("name", name, "address", address))) json_doc
FROM t1,
JSON_TABLE(json_col, '$.people[*]' COLUMNS (
name VARCHAR(40) PATH '$.name',
address VARCHAR(100) PATH '$.address')) people;
WHERE people.name LIKE 'John%';
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json_doc
{"people": [{"name": "John Smith", "address": "780 Mission St, San Francisco,
CA 94103"}, {"name": "John Johnson", "address": "1262 Roosevelt Trail,
Raymond, ME 04071"}]}

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JSON_TABLE
id father married child_id child age
1 John 1 1 Eric 12
1 John 1 2 Beth 10
2 Paul 0 1 Sarah 9
2 Paul 0 2 Noah 3
2 Paul 0 3 Peter 1
[
{ "father":"John", "mother":"Mary",
"marriage_date":"2003-12-05",
"children": [
{ "name":"Eric", "age":12 },
{ "name":"Beth", "age":10 } ] },
{ "father":"Paul", "mother":"Laura",
"children": [
{ "name":"Sarah", "age":9},
{ "name":"Noah", "age":3} ,
{ "name":"Peter", "age":1} ] }
]
Nested arrays

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JSON_TABLE – Nested Arrays
id father married child_id child age
1 John 1 1 Eric 12
1 John 1 2 Beth 10
2 Paul 0 1 Sarah 9
2 Paul 0 2 Noah 3
2 Paul 0 3 Peter 1
JSON_TABLE (families, '$[*]' COLUMNS (
id FOR ORDINALITY,
father VARCHAR(30) PATH '$.father',
married INTEGER EXISTS PATH
'$.marriage_date',
NESTED PATH '$.children[*]' COLUMNS (
child_id FOR ORDINALITY,
child VARCHAR(30) PATH '$.name',
age INTEGER PATH '$.age') ) )

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JSON_TABLE
SELECT father, COUNT(*) "#children", AVG(age) "age average"
FROM t, JSON_TABLE (families, '$[*]' COLUMNS (
id FOR ORDINALITY,
father VARCHAR(30) PATH '$.father',
NESTED PATH '$.children[*]' COLUMNS (age INTEGER PATH '$.age' ) ) ) AS fam
GROUP BY id, father;
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SQL aggregation on JSON data
father #children age average
John 2 11.0000
Paul 3 4.3333

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Put Computed Data Back Into JSON Document
SELECT JSON_ARRAYAGG(fam_obj) families
FROM (
SELECT JSON_MERGE_PATCH(family,
JSON_OBJECT("#children", COUNT(*), "avg_age" , AVG(age))) fam_obj
FROM t, JSON_TABLE (families, '$[*]' COLUMNS (
id FOR ORDINALITY,
family JSON PATH '$',
NESTED PATH '$.children[*]' COLUMNS (age INTEGER PATH '$.age' ) )
) fam
GROUP BY id, family) fams;
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Modify JSON Objects
SELECT
JSON_ARRAYAGG(JSON_MERGE_PATCH(JSON_OBJECT("id", id), family))
AS families
FROM t, JSON_TABLE (families, '$[*]' COLUMNS (
id FOR ORDINALITY,
family JSON PATH '$')) fam;
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Put IDs in objects
families
[{"id": 1, "father": "John", "mother": "Mary", "children": [{"age": 12, "name":
"Eric"}, {"age": 10, "name": "Beth"}], "marriage_date": "2003-12-05"},
{"id": 2, "father": "Paul", "mother": "Laura", "children": [{"age": 9, "name":
"Sarah"}, {"age": 3, "name": "Noah"}, {"age": 1, "name": "Peter"}]}]

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