SQL queries on Databricks Lakehouse One of the features that makes Databricks Lakehouse Platform viable as a substitute for a standard data warehouse is its much improved SQL engine, called Photon.

Dino Esposito explains JSON-to-rowset native support in SQL Server 2016 and provides a realistic perspective of data query when you have JSON data stored in the database.

With SQL Server 2016, it now makes sense to store JSON objects in your database (even though there’s no JSON datatype). Here’s how to query JSON properties to find the rows you want.