https://bradleycarey.com/tags/ssms/ Recent content in SSMS on bradleycarey.com Hugo en Sat, 02 Sep 2023 22:22:18 -0400 https://bradleycarey.com/posts/selecting-rows-as-json-truncates-long-json-strings/ Sun, 18 Nov 2018 00:40:04 -0500 https://bradleycarey.com/posts/selecting-rows-as-json-truncates-long-json-strings/ <p>In the newer versions of Microsoft SQL Server, it is now super easy to <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/json/format-query-results-as-json-with-for-json-sql-server" class="external-link" target="_blank" rel="noopener">return selected rows as json data</a>.</p> <p>Unfortunately, SSMS seems to truncate json strings that are longer than 2033 chars no matter what you do. This seems to happen no matter if you show the results in the grid, text, or a file.</p> <p>Here is a workaround using a variable and <code>PRINT</code> if you want to just get the json string on your clipboard:</p>