create function [fds_wgd_lastEmails](@count int = 10) returns table as return -- [config] is NOT NULL but a logging path may have stored '' (or otherwise non-JSON text). -- OPENJSON/JSON_QUERY raise on that and took the whole widget down, so the JSON is normalised -- once (invalid -> '{}') before anything parses it; a WHERE ISJSON() alone is not guaranteed to -- be evaluated ahead of the CROSS APPLY. SELECT TOP (@count) [Betreff] = oj.[subject], [Empfänger] = (SELECT STRING_AGG( CASE WHEN CHARINDEX('<', [value]) > 0 THEN SUBSTRING([value], CHARINDEX('<', [value]) + 1, CHARINDEX('>', [value]) - CHARINDEX('<', [value]) - 1) ELSE [value] END, ', ') FROM OPENJSON(JSON_QUERY(j.[cfg], '$.to'))), [attachments] = (SELECT STRING_AGG([value], ', ') FROM OPENJSON(JSON_QUERY(j.[cfg], '$.attachments'))), [gesendet] = FORMAT(el.DateSent, 'dd.MM.yy', 'de-DE') FROM [dbo].[fds__emaillog] as el CROSS APPLY (SELECT [cfg] = IIF(ISJSON(el.[config]) = 1, el.[config], N'{}')) as j CROSS APPLY OPENJSON(j.[cfg], '$') WITH ( [subject] nvarchar(255) '$.subject' ) as oj order by [DateSent] desc