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Asked: 2026-05-26T13:29:28+00:00

I was analyzing my situation and I face with the problem that I need

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I was analyzing my situation and I face with the problem that I need to save the content of an XML file in SQL SERVER 2008. My XML files have a size around 200KB to 600KB

For the momment, how would I define the field to accept this content? I can imagine I can set the content directly but I’m not sue about this problem.

Thanks in advance.

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  1. Editorial Team

    SQL 2008 supports a dedicated xml data type, which is documented here.

    Some details include the following for fragments, and documents, respectively:

    Restricts the xml instance to be a well-formed XML fragment. The XML
    data can contain multiple zero or more elements at the top level. Text
    nodes are also allowed at the top level.

    Restricts the xml instance to be a well-formed XML document. The XML
    data must have one and only one root element. Text nodes are not
    allowed at the top level.

    Also, a point on capacity (though a 2GB limitation should be hard to reach in the majority of cases):

    The stored representation of xml data type instances cannot exceed 2
    gigabytes (GB) in size. For more information, see Implementing XML in
    SQL Server    .

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