SQL Server 2000 made this possible with the use of OPENXML, which allows you to store data into a VARCHAR data type and pass it around. This became even easier in SQL Server 2005 with the advent ...

Of course, some structure ... examples. Snowflake can also support semi-structured data types such as JSON, Avro and XML alongside relational data by flattening nested formats into relational ...

SQL databases have constraints on data types and consistency ... With SQL databases, all data has an inherent structure. A conventional database like Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL ...