I discovered TopCoder.com this weekend and now I know how I'm gonna spend my spare time next decade...
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Couple of news bits you want to check out if you are interested in XML and SQL Server 2005: Michael Rys talks about XML in the upcoming SQL Server 2005 on Channel9 43 min video. 15seconds.com published an article "SQL Server 2005 XQuery and XML-DML" by Alex Homer. Part 1
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