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Thursday, October 25, 2007 9:52 PM

Moving on

I'm over 2 months late in writing this post. please forgive me for the delay, especially those of you who were nice enough to leave comments and questions and expected a response. This is my last posting on my "Typed XML" blog. After almost 9 years at
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Thursday, April 19, 2007 5:10 PM

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>'
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007 6:04 PM

Stardust memories

The famous Stardust hotel and casino was torn down today . I was fond of the place since this was the hotel I stayed at when I first visited Vegas in the mid nineties. During our most recent trip to Nevada last summer my wife and I made sure we stopped
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007 4:22 PM

Mixed content (part 3)

It’s been a few weeks since my last post about mixed content so let’s pick up right where we left off. This time we will look at DML operations on mixed content. We’ll keep using the XML schema as well as the table I created in the first post of this
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Thursday, March 08, 2007 2:24 PM

A new SQL CLR blog

One of my colleagues, Brad Richards just started blogging about SQL CLR performance. If you use SQL CLR I strongly suggest that you take a look at this blog . Brad is very knowledgeable about performance and you're likely to learn some very valuable information
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Tuesday, January 16, 2007 3:32 PM

Mixed content (part 2)

Following last week's introduction to the concept of mixed content, let's look in detail at a validated XML instance with mixed content. Taking a look at the children nodes of the <letter> element Let’s reuse the instance we stored in our table
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Thursday, January 11, 2007 4:57 PM

Mixed content (part 1 of many)

I started working on this two days ago. I quickly realized that when I’m done I’ll most likely have material for multiple posts. My original plan was to finish the article in the next few days, and then publish it as several posts over time. However I
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Monday, December 04, 2006 7:56 PM

xsi:nil magic (part 2/2)

Last time we looked at what happens to the xsi:nil attributes when replacing the value of a simply typed element. In this post, we’re going to look at complex types. First let’s create a schema collection with complex types and elements. CREATE XML SCHEMA
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Thursday, November 30, 2006 6:19 PM

xsi:nil magic (part 1/2)

A few months ago I wrote a post about the interesting behavior of the xsi:type attribute . Today we’re going to look at his no so distant relative xsi:nil. But first let’s do a quick recap. Any element can be made nillable by adding the attribute nillable=”true”
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006 5:26 PM

About my article in SQL Server Standard Magazine

In my previous post I mentioned the article I wrote for the September issue of SQL Server Standard Magazine. I heard of one person who was having trouble running the code samples from the article. When I received my copy of the magazine I realized the
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Friday, September 01, 2006 10:42 AM

The latest issue of SQL Server Standard magazine is all about XML.

The September issue of SQL Server Standard magazine is devoted to XML. I contributed an article where I look at ways to use XML to solve relational problems. Check it out!
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Tuesday, August 22, 2006 4:43 PM

Complementing XSD with CHECK constraints

I was recently asked to look at a customer’s question. This person wanted to write a schema that would validate instances like the following one. <TopElement> <a> <element1 att1="data1" att2="data2"/> <an_element att1="data 1" att2="data
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Friday, August 11, 2006 10:12 AM

xsi:type magic

As I said in my previous post, the past few weeks have been demanding and I had little time to spend on blog post. However I recently rediscovered an interesting behavior in typed XML DML and I felt I should make some time for a quick post. Today’s post
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Wednesday, June 28, 2006 9:24 PM

Explaining the reasons behind some of XML datatype's limitations

If you use XML in SQL Server 2005, and especially if you use it in association with schemas, I suggest you read Brandon's recent blog post about the limitations that were placed on the XML datatype. Brandon is one of our developers and he's got first-hand
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Wednesday, June 21, 2006 11:46 AM

If you leave me now…

A man named Vincent Ferrari is making headlines today. He called AOL’s costumer service to cancel his account and ran into a less than cooperative representative. The twist is, Vincent was taping the call and posted the recording on his blog . This article
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