This white paper provides an introduction to various features of XQuery implemented in SQL Server 2005 such as the FLWOR statement, operators in XQuery, if-then-else construct, XML constructors, built-in XQuery functions, type casting operators, and examples of how to use each of these features.
2008-06-20
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SQL Server MVP Jacob Sebastian continues his very successful XML series with a foray into SQL Server 2000's XML capabilities for generating custom documents.
2008-06-04
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Continuing on with his amazing series on XML, SQL Server MVP Jacob Sebastian shows us how to use XML in SQL Server 2005 to generate an ATOM feed.
2008-05-15
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Over the past few years, software developers have used various kinds of technologies to retrieve data from relational databases. SQL Server 2000 is the first Microsoft DBMS to fully support XML. In this article the author concentrates on the FOR XML clause in SQL Server versions, 2000 and 2005. Click on title for more
2008-05-07
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Use XQuery scripting language to retrieve specific XML data type values in SQL Server. Learn to script and use Value() and Query() to retrieve single and multiple XML values.
2008-04-24
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Continuing on with part 18 of his series, MVP Jacob Sebastian examines building an RSS feed in T-SQL.
2008-04-09
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Jacob Sebastian brings a little more complexity to working with XML documents. Here we learn how to iterate through a document and use each node and perform some action on each one.
2008-03-26
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Continuing on with his series, Jacob Sebastian shows how you can shape the query results to a certain pre-defined XML structure in this article.
2008-03-19
4,812 reads
The next installment of Jacob Sebastian's great series on XML looks at how a .NET application might consume XML data returned from SQL Server.
2008-03-12
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By adding XML-based documentation capability to your SQL code, you can automatically extract and format tagged comments into a complete API documentation set for your SQL libraries.
2008-02-20
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