XML Queries and Indexing in SQL Server 2005

SQL Server 2005 is the first version of Microsoft's flagship database to truly embrace XML. True, SQL Server 2000 has some bolt-on XML functionality, but in SQL Server 2005 XML is pervasive. In particular, you can use the new XML columns to actually store XML documents as part of a table. In this article, I'll dig into another part of the XML story: indexing those columns for faster searching.

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