XML, SQL Server, and You

Learn (almost) everything you need to know about handling XML in SQL server in one hour-long session. We will cover the basics of querying XML, covering common patterns you will encounter as well as more advanced tricks using the XQuery language. You'll learn how to construct XML from the data on your server. Finally, we'll look at the good, the bad, and the ugly of XML indexes. What they are, how they make your queries faster and, the problems they may cause you.