Chapter 7. Querying and Managing XML Data

Exam objectives in this chapter:

  • Work with Data

    • Query and manage XML data.

Microsoft SQL Server 2012 includes extensive support for XML. This support includes creating XML from relational data with a query and shredding XML into relational tabular format. Additionally, SQL Server has a native XML data type. You can store XML data, constrain it with XML schemas, index it with specialized XML indexes, and manipulate it using XML data type methods. All of the T-SQL XML data type methods accept an XQuery string as a parameter. XQuery (short for XML Query Language) is the standard language used to query and manipulate XML data.

In this chapter, you learn how to use all of the XML features mentioned. In addition, ...

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