So who really wins?
Well I guess the answer would be no one (or the last one, or the one who bribes the dba...)
In any case, it was an exercise I alway contemplated, and always thought wasn't really a good idea, but always seems to come up. I guess I should start a list of PROS and CONS for this type of operation. Anyway the code was fun, and I hope it helps. Not rocket science, and I betcha there could be a bunch of problems. I tried to take in to account if the tables got out of sync or...
XML RANT
EDIT: 1/12/2005 Hey Look! An Official He-Man XML Haters Club Thread
http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=44577
Until someone can post some reason why XML in SQL Server is a good thing, I'm starting this Official XML Ranting Post.
I will start a list of why I dislike XML in SQL Server. My Ignorance is unbounded.
"Let's take the nice relational model and add to it hierarchical "capabilities" But let's make sure the data is stored in a text column, so they can get it out in chuncks, so they can the use these "tools" to parse it out into relational format, where it can be stored, and...