John Gallardo's Weblog

Among the features introduced in SQL Server 2005 is the new XML Datatype . You can use this guy to store both untyped and typed XML information and maintain the infoset fidelity of the document. We support a subset of the XQuery language which can be...

Last week I threw out a quick quiz about the XML datatypes 'exist' method. The reason it was at the top of my mind was that it was a mistake that I had made only a couple of days before. Not only that, but even a couple of my peers didn't recognize the...

Denis is one of my fellow SDETs on the SQL Server Engine team. He just started a blog about XSD in SQL Server. http://blogs.msdn.com/denisruc/archive/2005/06/13/428726.aspx Static Typing is one of those things that causes a bit of confusion at first...

This has nothing to do with XML. I have been helping out another team here in the SQL Engine with some of their lab automation. Most of it consists of tons of shell scripts, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I am certainly no shell scripting...

Testing Testing... Ok I guess we are on. My name is John Gallardo (clever that, it matches the title). As of today I have been working at Microsoft for just over 2 years as an SDET (Software Design Engineer in Test) in the SQL Server Engine team. Most...

Denis talks about static typing again over in his blog. Today he is focusing on path expressions which evaluate to singletons. I recommend you check the entry on his site for the details. The only thing that I wanted to add is that usually it is better...

http://blogs.msdn.com/galexy/ Galex has started blogging as well. He is another SDET here in the SQL Server engine team working on the XML data type.