Short answer, no. There is nothing in MySQL to facilitate this. In general, storing structured data as a blob (JSON, CSV, XML-fragment, etc..) is an anti-pattern in a relational environment. There are NoSQL solutions that provide the facility: Mongo comes to mind; there are some others, I am sure.
On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 2:59 PM, Karr Abgarian <a...@apple.com> wrote: > Hi, you probably want to perform this conversion on your client. There are > JSON parser libraries available for Java, PHP and the like. Cheers, Karr > > On Mar 20, 2014, at 11:35 AM, Sukhjinder K. Narula <narula...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hello, >> I would like to know if there is a way to decode the json string stored in >> one of the fields as text without using triggers or stored procedures. >> What I want to do is is within the query, I would like to get one row per >> element within the json string. >> For example: the json string is as follow: >> >> [ >> { >> "name" : "Abc", >> "age" : "20" >> }, >> { >> "name" : "Xyz", >> "age" : "18" >> } >> ] >> >> and after query, I want result as: >> Name Age >> Abc 20 >> Xyz 18 >> >> >> Would this be possible, I greatly appreciate any help regarding this >> matter. >> >> Many Thanks, >> Sukhjinder > > > -- > MySQL General Mailing List > For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql > -- - michael dykman - mdyk...@gmail.com May the Source be with you. -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql