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Dinesh Asanka
SQL Service Broker objects in the SQL Server Management Studio after creating them.

Using the SQL Server Service Broker for Asynchronous Processing

June 10, 2020 by

Introduction

In the real-world implementation of SQL Server of an enterprise system, it always needs to implement data in multiple databases. In most of the cases, a single transaction will span across multiple databases. If there are multiple databases, there will be performance issues and implementation issues during the cross-database transactions. However, with the use of SQL Service Broker that was introduced in SQL Server 2005, you can implement asynchronous transactions between databases.

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Jignesh Raiyani
Form to XML

XQuery examples to delete SQL XML documents

February 5, 2020 by

Delete operations over SQL XML should be possible with either erasing the XML document with the XML data type column or delete XML tag or attribute in the XML document using XQuery. The utilization of the XML data type with XQuery is tricky and significant in SQL Server.

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Jignesh Raiyani

Generate XML Forms or XML Data Type Documents in SQL Server

January 27, 2020 by

In this article, we’ll show how to create an XML data type document from a relational table utilizing different T-SQL ways. For example, for data migration, information from the SQL Server database can be exported and imported using XML in another framework. XML is a standard way of extracting, storing and manipulating data. One aspect of working with the XML data type is creating XML from relational information, which is done using the FOR XML provision in SQL Server:

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Jignesh Raiyani
Edit XML Document

Different ways to update XML using XQuery in SQL Server

January 23, 2020 by

XQuery is a query language for XML. XML is a markup language that provides software and hardware-independent way of storing, transporting, and sharing data. In this case, XML documents are stored in a SQL Server database. XQuery is used to manipulate, find and extract information stored in the XML format. It’s analogous to SQL for databases.

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Hadi Fadlallah
This image shows how XML value was sent in one row to the flat file destination that acts as SSIS XML Destination

SSIS XML Destination

October 11, 2019 by

Until now, Microsoft has not included the XML Destination component in SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS). Many years ago, this component was requested on the Microsoft connect website, but it was closed as “Won’t fix.” For this reason, many workarounds and third-party components were created. In this article, we’ll talk about these components and some of the popular solutions for exporting data to XML using SSIS.

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Jefferson Elias

How to use SQL Server Extended Events to parse Deadlock XML and generate statistical reports

June 29, 2017 by

Introduction

Context In previous article entitled “How to report on SQL Server deadlock occurrences“, we’ve seen how to extract deadlock information from either system_health or specialized Extended Event and store this information into a table in a SQL Server database. We also discussed a simple report which leads to the creation of a deadlock occurrences timeline. Read more »
Minette Steynberg

Understanding the XML description of the Deadlock Graph in SQL Server

March 29, 2017 by

Introduction

In my previous 2 articles, What is a SQL Server Deadlock and Understanding the graphical representation of the SQL Server Deadlock Graph, I discussed what a deadlock is, how SQL Server handles deadlocks, some tips on how to reduce deadlocks and ultimately what information you can glean by just looking at the graphical representation of the Deadlock Graph. In this article, I will look at what information is available in the XML description of the Deadlock Graph. The XML contains information which is not visible in the graphical representation of the Deadlock Graph, which makes it necessary for us to look at the XML description. Read more »
Marko Radakovic

Using an XML file to configure an SSIS package

March 16, 2014 by
To configure an SSIS package means to choose property/value pairs added to a completed package, and include them in the configuration file for the further modifications. If for any reason some of the values has been changed after the deployment is finished and the package run, they can be added later, opening the package in Business Intelligence Development Studio (BIDS), and changing the values Read more »