Welcome to my MSDN blog! My name is Galex Yen and I've been working within the XML datatype team in SQL Server for the past year. My team has begun to blog about our exciting new feature and it seems I'm one of the late comers. I've linked to my fellow team members' blogs under the category "Other MSDN XML Blogs." Our hope is to provide a one stop shop for dialogue and education on the native XML datatype.

I'm very enthused about how we've integrated XML into SQL Server 2005 and I hope that all of you will learn something from our posts. I encourage you to ask questions and provide f