In SQL Server 2016, FOR JSON PATH
allows for the whole result set returned as a JSON string. Is there a way to get a regular record set with some columns as JSON?
For e.g. for a Products (Master) and Orders (Details) table when joined together, I would like the query to return the result set from the Products
table as regular tabular columns, but those multiple rows for each product from the Orders
table returned as a JSON column.
Until now I have been doing this using a user-defined scalar function to which the product ID was passed and it returned JSON formatted Orders data, but I was hoping if there was a cleaner way of doing it.