Making Sense of the XML DataType in SQL Server 2005
In SQL Server 2005, XML becomes a first-class data type. Developers can make minor remote modifications to stored XML documents easily, taking advantage of new support for XML schema-based strong typing, and server-based XML data validation.
by Shawn Wildermuth
June 13, 2006
s database developers, many of us have had to dip our feet into the wide ocean of XML.
It should come as good news that in SQL Server 2005, you can store XML in the database with a new XML datatype. Although this is good news, many developers have been storing XML in the database for some time now. Even without implicit support for XML, developers have been shoving XML documents into text fields since XML's inception.
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s database developers, many of us have had to dip our feet into the wide ocean of XML.
