XQuery 1.0 and XPath 2.0 are now W3C Recommendations, thanks in part to the contributions of several Microsoft employees over the years. An earlier draft of the XQuery specification is supported in SQL Server 2005 , and you can send an XQuery to the server using the ADO.NET that shipped in Visual Studio 2005. These features are becoming widely used. Now that the XQuery family of specifications is complete, it’s fair to ask what our implementation plans might be, We had been working on an implementation
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