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JSON_REMOVE function

Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition   ✅ Express Edition   ✅ Professional Edition   ✅ Enterprise Edition

The MySQL style JSON_REMOVE function is a function that removes a value from a JSON document, given a JSON path.

SELECT 
  JSON_REMOVE('{"a":1}', '$.a'),
  JSON_REMOVE('{"a":1}', '$.b')
create.select(
           jsonRemove(val(json("{\"a\":1}")), "$.a"),
           jsonRemove(val(json("{\"a\":1}")), "$.b")).fetch();

The result would look like this:

+-------------+-------------+
| json_remove | json_remove |
+-------------+-------------+
| {}          | {"a":1}     |
+-------------+-------------+

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

jsonRemove(val(json("{\"a\":1}")), "$.a")

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

-- MARIADB, MYSQL, SQLITE
json_remove('{"a":1}', '$.a')

-- ORACLE
json_transform('{"a":1}', REMOVE '$.a')

-- SQLSERVER
json_modify('{"a":1}', '$.a', NULL)

-- ACCESS, ASE, AURORA_MYSQL, AURORA_POSTGRES, BIGQUERY, COCKROACHDB, DB2, DERBY, DUCKDB, EXASOL, FIREBIRD, H2, HANA, 
-- HSQLDB, INFORMIX, MEMSQL, POSTGRES, REDSHIFT, SNOWFLAKE, SQLDATAWAREHOUSE, SYBASE, TERADATA, TRINO, VERTICA, YUGABYTEDB
/* UNSUPPORTED */

(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.19, see #10141), or translate your own on our website

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