What are the advantages of storing xml in a relational database?
- by Chris
I was poking around the AdventureWorks database today and I noticed that a number of tables (HumanResources.JobCandidate and Sales.Individual for example) have a column which is storing xml data.
What I would to know is, what is the advantage of storing basically a database table row's worth of data in another table's column? Doesn't this make…