Json to table in SQL Server 2008

Question

I want to insert below data into a SQL Server table

{ 
    "ITEM_NUMBER":"CSC-ENVM",
    "SHIPPED_DATE":"1995-08-22T00:00:00",
    "STATUS":"Shipped",
    "SOURCE":"Shipment"
},
{ 
    "ITEM_NUMBER":"NP-2R",
    "SHIPPED_DATE":"1995-03-14T18:23:00",
    "STATUS":"Shipped",
    "SOURCE":"Shipment"
}

**ITEM_NUMBER| SHIPPED_DATE | STATUS | SOURCE

CSC-ENVM |1995-08-22T00:00:00| Shipped | Shipment

NP-2R |1995-03-14T18:23:00|Shipped |Shipment**

Answer 1

Just insert into table of a column with Varchar column as mentioned in comments as well

insert into #temp
select '{ 
    "ITEM_NUMBER":"CSC-ENVM",
    "SHIPPED_DATE":"1995-08-22T00:00:00",
    "STATUS":"Shipped",
    "SOURCE":"Shipment"
},
{ 
    "ITEM_NUMBER":"NP-2R",
    "SHIPPED_DATE":"1995-03-14T18:23:00",
    "STATUS":"Shipped",
    "SOURCE":"Shipment"
}'

In SQL 2008,you also can read this JSON data using ParseJson function created by Phil Factor.you can read on about that here...

Consuming JSON Strings in SQL Server