I need for a quick one time demo to generate a bunch (500,000) clients names in a client table under SQL Server 2000.<BR><BR>Everything else in the table is loaded, the clients just don't have names.

JSON has stolen some of XML's thunder with features such as human and machine readability, a lightweight, compact text structure and support for many software and hardware platforms. JSON (JavaScript ...

SQL Server's OpenJson function will let you dismantle JSON structures into relational tables, including tables with foreign/primary key relationships. As I noted in an earlier column, JSON is great ...