SQL Server 2019 supports non-XML format files and XML format files for bulk exporting and importing. Find out about non-XML format files and their benefits. You can create a non-XML format file ...

Handling XML from an xml type column by using ADO.NET To use MDAC components to access the types and features that were introduced in [!INCLUDEssVersion2005], you must set the DataTypeCompatibility ...

I have the following CTE's, and I'm trying to combine XML1 and XML2 CTE's in Sql Server by their common refid key. ;With TBL1_Fruits As (Select '1' as refid, 'Apples' as fruits, 'Red' as color, ...

Abstract: XML is often used to represent objects that expose different sets of properties. This "property bag" scenario is a prominent use case for the XML support added to Microsoft SQL Server 2005.

While designing large databases, one of the most commonly done things to incorporate future additions to the data fields is, adding a number of generic fields that can later be used as additional data ...

Abstract: Loosely-coupled, distributed system architectures need to be flexible enough to allow individual components to join or leave the heterogeneous conglomerate of services and components and to ...