Since XML is now a full-fledged datatype in SQL Server, you can easily create a new table that contains a field having XML in it, using the SQL Server Management Studio (formerly, Enterprise Manager).

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As you can see, it takes the name of a fruit and a sales value and updates the appropriate row in the SQL Server table. I then created a new table in Excel with some new fruit sales values: Used this ...

Note To leave this property as FALSE, you must have ALTER TABLE permissions on target tables. For more information, see ALTER TABLE (Transact-SQL). The default value is FALSE. When it is set to FALSE, ...

Specify XML values as parameters If a query requires a parameter whose value is an XML string, you can supply that value using an instance of the SqlXml data type. There really are no tricks; XML ...

All these three things are necessary to get a properly typed numeric column in your Power Query query – if you vary from this too much then folding won’t happen. It’s also possible to use this ...

SQL Server 2014 CTP1 introduced hash indexes for memory-optimized tables. Hash indexes are very efficient for point lookups, when you know exactly the value you are looking for.