The JSON Functions for using MySQL 5.7 are overwhelming at first glance. A peek at documentation such as the JSON Modification Functions may make you shy at proceeding further. In previous posts the functions to create JSON documents for use in a MySQL column and the functions to get the meta information about JSON documents have been covered. And how to use the built-in JSON functions from PHP have been covered. But now it is time to cover modifying JSON data. Appending Lets start at the beginning and ask the server for a JSON array with the values of 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5.
mysql> select JSON_ARRAY(1,2,3,4,5);
+-----------------------+
| JSON_ARRAY(1,2,3,4,5) |
+-----------------------+
| [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] |
+-----------------------+
1 row in set (0.00 sec)
mysql>
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