What’s New in SQL Server Web Services
Microsoft first made it possible to expose T-SQL query batches, stored procedures, and scalar-valued functions as web services with the release of SQLXML 3.0, an add-on package for SQL Server 2000 that allowed for the interchange of relational data as Extensible Markup Language (XML).
Over the past few years, the SQLXML packages have addressed the growing dependence of data-driven, distributed applications on XML and have kept SQL Server 2000 current with the explosion of progress in the world of XML.
The good news is that we no longer need SQLXML to create SQL Server web services because SQL Server 2008 supports them natively. The bad news is that this feature has been deprecated in SQL Server 2008. Although ...
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