JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) is a popular data-interchange format because it is easy to serialize and deserialize by both humans and machines. JSON is also widely supported by most major programming languages, and there are hundreds of libraries for generating and parsing it. In MySQL, you can define JSON as a data type when creating table columns. While you can practically store the same JSON data in a text field, the JSON data type has a couple of advantages. One, the optimized storage fo......