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The full version of this post can be found here., http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/simons/Referencing Parent nodes in XQuery is expensive
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Recently a post on a newsgroup caught my attention. "OPENXML vs XQuery Performance", it caught my attention because I did a bucket load of performance testing of OPENXML way back when for SQL Server 2000 XML Distilled
and hadn't touched XQuery really.
... To read the complete version of this post go here, http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/simons/Referencing Parent nodes in XQuery is expensive