Note the following general limitations that apply to the xml data type: The stored representation of xml data type instances can't exceed 2 GB. It can't be used as a subtype of a sql_variant instance.

Learn how to normalize complex data types such as JSON, XML, or spatial data in your database development projects using different approaches and tools.

With Oracle Corp.'s annual OpenWorld conference on the horizon, database vendors are preparing for battle once again. This time around, the big three - IBM Corp., Oracle, and Microsoft Corp. - are ...

String data types store character, binary, graphic, and XML data. Datetime data types store date, time, and timestamp values. Complex data types store user-defined types, arrays, rows, and cursors.

XML, a way to code documents for easy transfer between applications, is widely seen as a key enabling technology for e-commerce in the future. Today’s HTML-based Web just can’t provide the ...

LOS ANGELES — Microsoft at its Professional Developers Conference 2003 here on Tuesday will discuss intentions to add an XML data type to its SQL Server database, with the Yukon release of the ...

Notice the flexibility, how easy the XML data type allows programmers to pass in a single or multiple rows of criteria. Stephen Glasskeys. For reporting uses, XML parameters really shine: ...

SQL Server does not yet support an XML data type or the SQL/XML extensions, but Tom Rizzo, SQL Server group product manager at Redmond, Wash.-based Microsoft, says that Yukon, due in 2004, will ...

This became even easier in SQL Server 2005 with the advent of the XML data type and XQuery. You still need to construct and shred the XML data before you can use it; this is functional but not simple.