To be more precise,I am expecting blogs or articles on these topics.

(plz don't direct me to microsoft blogs:w00t:)

Thank you all for quick response.

I am expecting layman explanation on these topics and I am tired of reading msdn.

Thank you so much for explaining the concept in an understandable manner.:-).

Great Article..

hmm sorry..i thought i would get some help..anyways np

Please give me some overview about

dataset.GetXml();

dataset.ReadXml(New XmlTextReader(New StringReader(str)));

openxml

thanks for the links..:)

Actually it is the code in production..It has been written soem 5 yrs back i guess..I have been asked to rewrite it..It appears greek n latin to me..till now am...

thanks for the link...but i need to know how to replace xml with table valued parameters in front end..

plz post some useful links reg it.

thank you guys..!!:)

There is a table in our application which contains about 1 crore rows and it refers 5 tables with lakhs of rows..so we have planned to archive some of the...

i need to do multipe insertions ..is it possible?

Thank you so much guys..it really helped me a lot.

Excellent article Gail.simple and neat..:)