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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

New blog by a SQL Server 2005 tester.

My fellow SDET Galex has started his own blog . If you're interested in the new XML functionality provided in SQL Server 2005 this is another great place to get some valuable information. Galex is our a resident expert on simple types (a feature which
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Effects of the type substitution mechanism on static typing (part I)

The XML schema specs define a mechanism that allows for the use of derived types in instance documents. In short, if a schema contains an element ‘E’ of type ‘T’, and if there is a type ‘T1’ derived from ‘T’ then we can set the type of any instance of
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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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