Most business applications store data in some kind of datastore, which is usually a relational database. To that end, SQL Server is one of Microsoft’s flagship products. Since many applications rely on the XML data, that Microsoft found it necessary to incorporate strong support for XML in their database engine.
Because SQL Server is such a popular database, it is worth learning its XML features. Moreover, it would be interesting to see how these features can be consumed from the applications built on top of the .NET Framework. In this chapter, you learn about the following:
Using XML ...
