MySQL JSON Functions
What the MySQL team is doing with JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) in MySQL 5.7 is great! The MySQL Server Blog (Rick Hillegas and Dag Wanvik) published two key articles about new JSON functions. If you don’t follow these, let me highlight them as a set:
Most folks know how important JSON is to web development. I like the following visual that highlights it. It was provided as a comment to this earlier Popular Programming Language post by Michael Farmer. Clearly, JavaScript is popular because it’s critical to effective web development. If you’re new to JSON, check out Adam Khoury’s JSON tutorial set on YouTube.
If you want the original graphic, you can find it here. It’s always to hard to keep up with the technology, isn’t it? 🙂