Since we shipped SQL Server 2005 I have seen a few users ask if there was a simple way to insert an XML instance into another one. For simplicity’s sake, in the rest of this post I’m going to assume that all my variables contain valid XML documents (a...

A typed XML column/variable is constrained by a schema collection. That means only instances that can be validated against the schemas in the collection will be accepted. You can tighten the rules a little bit with the use of the DOCUMENT facet, which...

As promised earlier I'm going to give you an example using a real-world schema. I've chosen to work with the Office 2003 schemas but I'm going to limit myself to Word and Excel. First, you need to install the schemas from here . In the T-SQL samples...