SQLAuthority News – Guest Post – SELECT * FROM XML – Jacob Sebastian
One of the most common problem SQL Server developers face while dealing with XML is related to writing the correct XPath expression to read a specific value from an XML document. I usually get a lot of questions by email, on my blog or in the forums which looks like the following:
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