Chapter 13. XML and SQL Server: HTTP Queries
Generally, he who occupies the field of battle first and waits his enemy is at ease; he who comes later to the scene and rushes into the fight is weary.
—Sun Tzu[1]
[1] Tzu, Sun. The Art of War. Cambridge, England: Oxford University Press, 1963. Page 96.
As I mentioned in the previous chapter, XML is taking over the world. Someday it will probably even supplant HTML as the most widely used markup language on the Internet. So it's no surprise that SQL Server has built-in support for working with XML. Like most modern DBMSs, SQL Server regularly needs to work with and store data that may have originated in an XML document. Without this built-in support, getting XML to and from SQL Server would require ...
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