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June 2005 - Posts

Manipulating file names in command shell script

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 expert. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, June 29, 2005 12:57 PM by jgalla | 1 Comments

Check out Galex's blog

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. Read More...
Posted Monday, June 20, 2005 2:36 PM by jgalla | 0 Comments

Some more static typing info...

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 Read More...
Posted Tuesday, June 14, 2005 4:59 PM by jgalla | 0 Comments

Denis talks about XQuery static typing in SQL Server 2005

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 for Read More...
Posted Monday, June 13, 2005 8:40 PM by jgalla | 1 Comments
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Answer: SQL Server 2005 'exist' method

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 Read More...
Posted Monday, June 13, 2005 12:45 PM by jgalla | 1 Comments
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Quiz: SQL Server 2005 XML 'exist' method

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 Read More...
Posted Friday, June 10, 2005 1:19 PM by jgalla | 4 Comments
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Is this thing on...

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 Read More...
Posted Friday, June 10, 2005 1:11 PM by jgalla | 0 Comments
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