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JSON_EXISTS predicate

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

The JSON_EXISTS predicate can be used to check whether a JSON path expression produces a value within a JSON document (see also the JSON_VALUE function)

SELECT 1
FROM dual
WHERE json_exists('{"a":1}', '$.a')
create.selectOne()
      .where(jsonExists(val(json("{\"a\":1}")), "$.a"))
      .fetch();

Dialect support

This example using jOOQ:

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

Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:

Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB

JSON_EXISTS(CAST('{"a":1}' AS json), '$.a')

BigQuery

json_query('{"a":1}', '$.a') IS NOT NULL

ClickHouse, DB2, MariaDB, Oracle

JSON_EXISTS('{"a":1}', '$.a')

DuckDB

('{"a":1}'->'$.a') IS NOT NULL

MySQL

json_contains_path('{"a":1}', 'one', '$.a')

Postgres

jsonb_path_exists(CAST('{"a":1}' AS jsonb), CAST('$.a' AS jsonpath))

SQLite

json_type('{"a":1}', '$.a') IS NOT NULL

ASE, Access, Aurora MySQL, Derby, Exasol, Firebird, H2, HSQLDB, Hana, Informix, MemSQL, Redshift, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer, Snowflake, Sybase, Teradata, Trino, Vertica, YugabyteDB

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