Is there a way to persist a Dictionary/CDT variable to a database and get later read it back out?

In Appian, is there a way to take a Dictionary or even a CDT variable, persist that out to a database and then read it back to a variable?

For example, I would like to take something like {new: 5, mod: 1, retire: 0, os: "Windows"} and write that to a VARCHAR column in a database. I would actually like to see the text written out to the DB field as "{new: 5, mod: 1, retire: 0, os: "Windows"}" so it's human readable.

Then I would like to read it back into a variable, perhaps of Any Type, for this example local!project and the be able to reference local!project.new directly.

Is this possible? This would be an awesome feature if it can.

Thanks.

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