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Why is there a 128-byte limit on the primary key for tables with a Primary XML Index?

One error that you may run into when attempting to create a Primary XML Index is the following: Msg...

Author: John Gallardo [MSFT] Date: 08/18/2005

Official XBox 360 Prices

Major Nelson has the scoop over at...

Author: John Gallardo [MSFT] Date: 08/17/2005

See you at TechReady...

I'm helping to proctor a lab session on the new XML features in SQL Server 2005 on Tuesday from...

Author: John Gallardo [MSFT] Date: 07/29/2005

More Virtual Earth...

One other thing I just now noticed... all of the menus and overlays have a cool transparency effect...

Author: John Gallardo [MSFT] Date: 07/25/2005

MSN Launches Virtual Earth

https://virtualearth.msn.com Things I like so far: Dynamic searches as you move around the map.  For...

Author: John Gallardo [MSFT] Date: 07/25/2005

Stuart blogs about loading XML data into SQL Server using the CLR

Stuart Padley, a Test Lead here in the SQL Server Engine team, posts about loading XML documents...

Author: John Gallardo [MSFT] Date: 07/21/2005

Consequences of redefining the default element namespace

Check out Mike's entry regarding namespaces in XQuery. I wanted to illustrate one more point...

Author: John Gallardo [MSFT] Date: 07/12/2005

Answer: Comparisons in XQuery vs T-SQL

Last week I threw out this simple little quiz. Here is the answer. The first query will return 1 or...

Author: John Gallardo [MSFT] Date: 07/11/2005

Interview with Jeff Minter about XBox 360 music visualizations

Link Strangely, one of the things I am looking forward to most for the XBox 360 is the inclusion of...

Author: John Gallardo [MSFT] Date: 07/06/2005

Quiz: Comparisons in XQuery vs T-SQL

I have the following two statements. What is the difference? What would you expect the results to...

Author: John Gallardo [MSFT] Date: 07/05/2005

Manipulating file names in command shell script

This has nothing to do with XML. I have been helping out another team here in the SQL Engine with...

Author: John Gallardo [MSFT] Date: 06/29/2005

Check out Galex's blog

https://blogs.msdn.com/galexy/ Galex has started blogging as well. He is another SDET here in the SQL...

Author: John Gallardo [MSFT] Date: 06/20/2005

Some more static typing info...

Denis talks about static typing again over in his blog. Today he is focusing on path expressions...

Author: John Gallardo [MSFT] Date: 06/14/2005

Denis talks about XQuery static typing in SQL Server 2005

Denis is one of my fellow SDETs on the SQL Server Engine team. He just started a blog about XSD in...

Author: John Gallardo [MSFT] Date: 06/13/2005

Quiz: SQL Server 2005 XML 'exist' method

Among the features introduced in SQL Server 2005 is the new XML Datatype. You can use this guy to...

Author: John Gallardo [MSFT] Date: 06/10/2005

Is this thing on...

Testing Testing... Ok I guess we are on. My name is John Gallardo (clever that, it matches the...

Author: John Gallardo [MSFT] Date: 06/10/2005

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