How to Return Duplicate Keys from a JSON Document in SQL Server

If you’re trying to extract values from a JSON document, but one or more of the values on the same level have duplicate keys, you might run into problems if you try to extract those values using JSON_QUERY() or JSON_VALUE().

Both of those functions will only return the first value that matches the path. 

Fortunately, there’s another option.

The OPENJSON() function will return all values from any duplicate keys on the same level.

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OPENJSON “Incorrect syntax near the keyword ‘with’.” in SQL Server (SOLVED)

If you’re trying to run some OPENJSON() code in SQL Server, but you’re getting error Msg 319, Level 15 “Incorrect syntax near the keyword ‘with'”, one possibility is that you really do have a syntax error.

But if you’ve check and double checked, and you’re convinced there’s no syntax error, it could actually be that the error is a side effect of having the wrong database compatibility level.

Normally you’d get error Msg 208, Level 16 “Invalid object name ‘OPENJSON’.” when using a database compatibility level of lower than 130, but in some cases, SQL Server finds a problem with the WITH clause first.

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