I'm trying to take an XML document and dump the contents into a table. Not as XML using the SQL Server 2005 XML datatype, but as the parsed data values into a table with a column for each element ...

In most implementations of SQL, you pull information from two tables by using a SELECT command in this form: SELECT table1.column1, table1.column2, table2.column1, table2.column2 ...

A few years ago, teams had to write SQL queries and code to extract useful information from large swathes of data. Today, all they have to do is type in a question.