Partial update of JSON values

Partial update of JSON values

MySQL 8.0 introduces partial update of JSON values, which is a nice performance improvement for applications that frequently update small portions of large JSON documents. Before, in MySQL 5.7, whenever you made a change to a stored JSON document, the full new JSON document would be written to the database, even if the update just changed a few bytes in the document.…

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