XML Workshop 25 - Inserting elements and attributes to an XML document

This article from MVP Jacob Sebastian looks at the modify method for changing an XML document.

Ten Problems with XQuery and the SQL/XML Standard

XQuery and SQL/XML standard are processors for XML. SQL/XML was designed to try to match the capabilities of XQuery as closely as possible and XQuery was designed not only to support XML, but also to support relational processing. Read on to learn why this may have a negative influence on their capabilities.

FOR XML PATH

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Using XML to pass and return values to procs

Tips on parsing and sculpting XML from within a SQL 2005 stored procedure

XML Query

Script SQL Table Schema as XML-XSD

When creating XML messages for Service Broker or other applications use this simple method to build a validation XSD.

Explore XML Data Type in SQL Server

SQL Server 2005 and 2008 provide native XML data type and provides extensive support for XML data processing. The easy conversion from XML to a relational table provides a way for set-based updates based on user input.

The Ghost in the Machine

Now that hierarchical data structures are popular again because of XML, their full hierarchical processing is still being limited to flat two dimensional linear path processing by relational processing. This will change when database professionals realize that ANSI SQL relational processing can now support full multipath nonlinear hierarchical processing.

Gain Space Using XML data type

This article is an attempt to explain the application of new XML support in SQL Server 2005 for efficient data storage and performance.