http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Content tagged T-SQL, Performance Tuning, OpenXML, Miscellaneous posted on SQLServerCentral.comen-us360sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)The fourth and final installment in this series, this week Andy discusses how using XML can reduce the load you put on your network and on your server. This is a high level article that discusses concepts. We think you'll find a good idea or two in this one! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning/reducingroundtripspart4/665/2004/04/23http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Performance+Tuning/reducingroundtripspart4/665/A monster book at 980 pages, it's written in 'how-to' format and has a ton of good material. Andy gave it the once over for us and reports back - see what he thinks! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Installation/reviewofsql2000fastanswers/959/2003/04/18http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Installation/reviewofsql2000fastanswers/959/