KenC.J

yeah. Especially SQL 2000 since it has the built in ability to turn an SQL table into XML. You dont want to put huge amounts of data into an XML document though, since it gets slow when you do. Some good uses of SQL and XML together is for somethng like this:

Lets say you have a web site a user comes to and changes alot of their data. You can get the users info from the SQL database and put it into an XML document. When a user makes a change to the information, you can just make the changes to the XML. And when the user is done, just apply the changes in the XML document to the database. This cuts down on resources used by SQL.

Alos, this may not apply to anything you would do, but it is also useful for transmitting data between different business systems on different Operating Systems.

The reply thingy should work already, Cander. Please post ur replies on the "not too bright questions" thread.

and u answered my questions and no doubt, I'm gonna take up XML.
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