Maintaining XML in SQL Server

This section describes how to manage XML schema collections and the catalog views that are available for monitoring and maintaining XML storage in SQL Server.

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Topic	Description
Managing XML Schema Collections on the Server	SQL Server provides the ability to validate instances of the xml data type against an XML schema. XML schema collections are SQL Server objects that hold XML schemata available for validation. This section describes how to manage XML Schema collections within SQL Server.
Catalog Views for XML	Describes the catalog views that provide metadata information about the XML data stored in SQL Server.