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Silent XQuery failures

A newsgroup post I read earlier today reminded me that there are cases where failure to get the expected result when using XQuery can sometimes be difficult to diagnose. Here’s what the poster was doing declare @xml xml set @xml = '<root><test></test></root>'

Download SP1 today!

Yesterday we released our first Service Pack for SQL Server 2005 . You might remember a while back I had written a small post about being hard at work on SP1. Back then I avoided giving any details for fear of running afoul of corporate policy but since

Document and content

Document and content are two options you can use in SQL Server 2005 when typing an XML column or variable with an XML schema collection. To put it simply document means only XML documents should be accepted (exactly one top level element) while content

Welcome

Welcome to my newly created blog. My name is Denis Ruckebusch. I've been part of the test organization at Microsoft for the past 6 years. I spent the last 4 working on the new XML datatype feature in SQL Server 2005. My main area of focus is typed XML.
 
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