Jovan Popvic has created a 4.35 GB JSON array:
SQL Server 2016 and Azure SQL Database enable you to parse JSON text and transform it into tabular format. In this post, you might see that JSON functions can handle very large JSON text – up to 4GB.
First, I would need very large JSON document. I’m using TPCH database so I will export the content of lineitem table in a file. JSON can be exported using the bcp.exe program:
My first draft read “Jovan Popovic has created a monster.” I might go back to that one. On the plus side, the operation took a lot less time than I had expected, though I’d have to imagine that his SQL Express instance had some decent specs.