XQuery and XPath
Miguel Cebollero, Jay Natarajan, MICHAEL G. H. COLES · Apress eBooks · 2015
As we described in Chapter 12, SQL Server 2014 continues the high level of XML integration begun in SQL Server 2005. As part of that integration, SQL Server’s xml data type provides built-in functionality for shredding XML data into relational format, querying XML nodes and singleton atomic values via XQuery, and modifying XML data via XML Data Modification Language (XML DML). This chapter focuses on how to get the most out of SQL Server’s implementation of the powerful and flexible XPath and XQuery standards. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.