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(Brett D. McLaughlin, Sr.) No data format is harder to search than XML, but with the fairly recent introduction of the XQuery API, XML searches are now flexible and easy to perform. For Java programmers who work with XML documents using SAX, DOM, JDOM, JAXP, and more, the XQuery API for Java is a we

We have discussed computed columns quite a bit in our posts at this blog. You can search for computed column and get to all those posts – the basic ones are here and here. A few days ago, a reader had asked whether we can create a computed column based on an XML Data Type column and if so, how […]

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(Kelly Martens) This one took me a while to do. Basically it is in a memory stream and we are trying to get a specific value of a node in the response.

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