Thanks for your response. I've been digging around the MSDN documentation...

Is OPENXML something I should look into?

https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187897(v=sql.110).aspx

I can find plenty of examples for importing and creating structures for...

Thanks much for all of the feedback!

Part of what I will be doing is automating the upload of data to a set of external sites via XML. In a nutshell,...

Thanks for your response.

If I do work at home though I may indeed need to bring 2016 data back to a 2012 installation - is this reason enough to...