Overview of the DiffGram Format
A DiffGram is an XML serialization format that includes both the original values and the current values of each row in each table. In particular, a DiffGram contains the current instance of rows with the up-to-date values, plus a section where all the original values for changed rows are grouped.
Each row is given a unique identifier that is used to track changes between the two sections of the DiffGram. This relationship looks a lot like a foreign key relationship. The following listing outlines the structure of a DiffGram:.
<diffgr:diffgram xmlns:msdata="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-msdata" xmlns:diffgr="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:xml-diffgram-v1"> <DataSet> ... </DataSet> <diffgr:before> ... ...
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