Microsoft XML Team's WebLog

Now that the Whidbey and Yukon projects have passed some milestones, the team weblogs are starting to show some activity again. Arpan Desai posts his thoughts on the rather interesting marketing campaign of an XQuery tools vendor who wants you all to demand XQuery support in .NET 2.0. That's not going to happen -- the feature list is frozen, schedules are set, and lots of other plans depend on .NET 2.0 coming out on time and with rock-solid quality. Dave Remy has an interesting post that rel Read More...

Just a reminder of this upcoming webcast. From the description: Microsoft SQL Server 2005 introduces a new data type called XML for storing and manipulating XML data at the server. This webcast looks at techniques for optimizing applications using XML Read More...

I have seen quite a few newsgroup posts about SQLXML Bulkload where the users think the schema and the data file that they use are correct, but nothing gets bulkloaded and neither do they get an error. One of the main reasons for this is that bulkload Read More...

Hi folks, I am Chandrasekaran Kalyanaraman (Chandra is how I am called in the team here.). I have been with the XML team for 4 years now as a tester and I have worked in SQLXML and SOAP Toolkit. I wanted to start blogging about my random thoughts related Read More...

We have a new article today from Oleg Tkachenko, one of our MVP's, about indexing XML for faster querying. Go check it out now ! Also, Michael Rys has listed upcoming Sql Server / XML webcasts. Apologies for the few updates lately. We're all trying to Read More...