Thanks for all your efforts over the years, Kathi.  Been great reading!

Nice, concise review of XML handling in SQL Server!   Thanks for the article.

The term "overpunch" takes me back about 50 years when I was working as a "tab machine" operator, handling vast quantities of punched cards, and programmed by wiring up "boards"...

Typo: "concatanate" should be "concatenate".

To Robert Sterbal: I would say yes, this is a reasonable overview. Key concept is "translation" of dbms commands.

Hear, Hear!

"the best of intensions" was probably intended to describe "intentions" ?

Editorial comment: 'Simplistic' describes the logical fallacy of oversimplification. I think you mean 'simple' rather than 'simplistic' in "To illustrate our case, let’s set up some very...

Great tip. I had to figure this out the hard way.

I would suggest that this article be removed. There are so many things wrong with it ...