If your business uses relational databases to store data, it helps to use the SQL SELECT command with the INTO clause to create new tables from query results. This method isn't ANSI-standard SQL, but ...

SQL stands for ‘Structured Query Language’. This is basically a declarative language used for storing and retrieving data in a database. If you’ve heard of SQL, it’s probably in the context of MySQL, ...

SQL Server's OpenJson function will let you dismantle JSON structures into relational tables, including tables with foreign/primary key relationships. As I noted in an earlier column, JSON is great ...