June 2004
There’s more to Yukon’s XML improvements than just the XML data type. The new TYPE directive makes your FOR XML queries more powerful, flexible, and efficient.
March 2004
You can combat disorderly results from an XML View by using this simple solution.
December 2003
Roll out the red carpet! Yukon's on its way, bringing great news for XML users: an xml data type that brings better functionality than any earlier SQL Server release.
November 2003
Bulk loading data into tables that use identity columns as primary keys used to require some sticky programming to properly set the value of foreign keys. See how XML Bulk Load has been enhanced in SQLXML 3.0 SP2 to automatically set foreign key values.
October 2003
If you have an XML Schema, XML Views are the easiest way to obtain XML results from SQL Server. Find out how you can optimize your XPath queries by translating them into FOR XML EXPLICIT queries that you can include in stored procedures.
September 2003
ADO.NET's DataSet gives you the performance benefits of client-side technology for storing and accessing large amounts of XML data in SQL Server.
August 2003
XML views let you produce an XML query result from your database, but ADO.NET's DataSet and XMLDataDocument classes also provide this functionality--and more.
June 2003
Edge tables can help you find data that's hidden in XML open content.
May 2003
You’ve stored open content from your XML document in your database. Now you need to merge the content with relational data in an XML query result. Read on to see how you can use FOR XML Explicit queries and XML Views to return the open content.
April 2003
Sure, your XML app is running fine now. But what if you need to transmit a new type of data through the same app later? With open content, you don't even need to know it's there.
February 2003
Inserting hierarchical data from an XML document into relational tables that have primary key/foreign key relationships can be difficult. Read on to see how you can use OpenXML's @mp:id meta-property to overcome the challenge.
January 2003
XML supports uniquely identifying entities and referencing those entities from other locations within an XML document. Find out how to reduce the size of an XML result by eliminating duplicate data when you express many-to-many relationships.
December 2002
If you need to map columns to elements or attributes, chain relationship annotations, specify columns as unique keys, or signal that an element or attribute isn’t in the database, you need to use these annotations.
November 2002
To organize your database, you usually normalize the data to maintain optimum performance. But XML documents aren’t normalized, they nest their elements instead. So how do you define an XML view on a normalized database? Read on.
October 2002
Current technologies still lack adequate support for building Web applications, so your best bet is to use the best tool for the job.
September 2002
If you use SQLXML in your development environment and need to transfer projects between computers, here’s a handy script that quickly duplicates your virtual directories.
August 2002
Before you put OpenXML to work inserting, updating, and deleting data in a real-world application, you need to fix a couple of glitches.
July 2002
Now you can use Microsoft’s SOAP Toolkit 2.0 and the WSDL to create a Web Service that easily expands the volume of data you send your customers across platforms.
June 2002
Web services is the hot new topic for the Internet. Find out how to use them to access your SQL Server databases.
April 2002
What are the best technologies for obtaining XML query results and updating SQL Server? Rich Rollman describes nine cutting-edge alternatives.
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