Demonstrates how to pass XML data as a parameter to a command. If a query requires a parameter whose value is an XML string, developers can supply that value using an instance of the SqlXml data type.

Learn about the advantages and limitations of the xml data type for storing XML data in SQL Server. If your data is highly structured with a known schema, the relational model is likely to work best ...

A few months ago a new option was added to the Sql.Database and Sql.Databases functions in Power Query in Power BI and Excel which allows Power Query queries that combine data from different SQL ...

Here’s yet another entry in the list of useful things I learned from Ehren von Lehe on the Power Query MSDN forum: Table.Buffer() does not buffer nested table, record or list values inside the cells ...

IBM is preparing to advance the XQuery XML query language on two fronts: by submitting with Microsoft a test suite for industry consideration and by working with Oracle on a Java API for the language.