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JSON_SERIALIZE_TO_VARBYTE function

The JSON_SERIALIZE_TO_VARBYTE function converts a SUPER value to a JSON string similar to JSON_SERIALIZE(), but stored in a VARBYTE value instead.

Syntax

JSON_SERIALIZE_TO_VARBYTE(super_expression)

Arguments

Return type

VARBYTE

Examples

To serialize a SUPER value and returns the result in VARBYTE format, use the following example.

SELECT JSON_SERIALIZE_TO_VARBYTE(JSON_PARSE('[10001,10002,"abc"]'));

+----------------------------------------+
|       json_serialize_to_varbyte        |
+----------------------------------------+
| 5b31303030312c31303030322c22616263225d |
+----------------------------------------+

To serialize a SUPER value and casts the result to VARCHAR format, use the following example. For more information, see CAST function.

SELECT CAST((JSON_SERIALIZE_TO_VARBYTE(JSON_PARSE('[10001,10002,"abc"]'))) AS VARCHAR);

+---------------------------+
| json_serialize_to_varbyte |
+---------------------------+
| [10001,10002,"abc"]       |
+---------------------------+