Forum Post: RE: json datatype

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I understand the use case. The only piece I am unsure about ... and mind you, it is unsure, not active opposition ... is the need for a special JSON datatype vs stuffing the JSON in a CLOB. If one sends it over the wire, one is just sending character data ... it happens to be in a format which is useful to the destination without special parsing. Here, one is in the context of paying the price of a disk read, so a little ABL overhead is minor and can't one parse a longchar into a JSON object ready for use with one line of code? So, where is the advantage?

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