JSON_KEYS performs a search on the JSON instance to the specified depth and returns a VARCHAR column of key names.
If a JSON array is present in the document, one result per index of each array is generated.
All results are given according to their "path" in the JSON document. Therefore, the output corresponding to a nested key contains the nested key itself and all parent keys.
If you specify the USING QUOTES ('Y') clause, the key names in the result set are enclosed in double quotation marks. This is the default behavior and allows you to copy and paste a path into an SQL statement, using the path as a dot notation entity reference on a JSON document, without any potential for improper use of SQL keywords.
If you specify the USING QUOTES ('N') clause, the key names in the result set are not enclosed in double quotation marks. This allows you to use the output as input to one of the JSON extraction methods, such as JSONExtractValue.
JSON_KEYS returns an empty string when the input to the table operator is an empty JSON object.