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I was only a week away from getting part 2 of “Death, Taxes, and Relational Databases” completed … when our second child arrived three weeks early.   Bottom – line, the article will be published, but it will be a couple months...

There is a new Sql Server Security best practices white paper . Nothing specific on SqlXml/ HTTP access (yet) – but definitely worth a read.  And I was able to peruse the entire paper while listening to the 23 minute version of “Whole ...

  There is a known problem with pre sp2 of SqlXml WR3 when running with IIS 6.0 (Windows Server 2003).   Basically, SqlXml virtual directories do not work properly when using the “Configure IIS Support” tool to set up SqlXml virtual...

While preparing my talk for Teched, I figured out a trick for getting simple sub-tree pruning when running XPath queries via SqlXml.   Sub-tree pruning is the ability to filter sub-trees of an Xml hierarchy.   For example, let’s say I had...

Greetings from Teched at Dallas , Texas – where the weather forecast is HOT. I am here to do a talk on SqlXml , however, that talk is not till Friday – so it will give me plenty of time to take in some other talks , and work...

  A beta of SqlXml Web release 3, sp2 has been released .  Normally a service pack release is not very exciting, but this release contains two key fixes to SqlXml WR3:   1. Identity value Propagation for Xml...

Roger Jennings has a short, interesting article on SqlXml Soap support and integration with WinForms and InfoPath.   Note, his observation on the fact that aliasing table names does not work is correct.  This is due to the fact that...

Ok… as with anything, the initial effort is always the hardest – so I am just going to jump right in and start hacking. My name is Andrew Conrad , I am a Software Design Engineer with the Sql Server group at Microsoft.   For the past...