Don't rely on key ordering with MySQL JSON values

You've likely heard that it's dangerous to rely on array keys maintaining a specific order. The JSON spec even defines these key/value pairs as "unordered".

But maybe in practice, you've never bumped into a situation where the order changed from what you expected.

In today's video, I show a real-world example where I bumped into this key ordering issue when using MySQL JSON columns.

I take a peek under the hood to see why it's happening, and give some advice on how to avoid the issue in your application.

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