[!INCLUDE [SQL Server Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance](../../includes/applies-to-version/sql-asdb-asdbmi.md)] The **nodes()** method is useful when you ...

[!INCLUDE [SQL Server Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance](../../includes/applies-to-version/sql-asdb-asdbmi.md)] You can use the **xml** data type methods ...

Abstract: Some XML databases have capabilities to store spatial data with certain spatial data formats. However, spatial operations that can be handled are still limited compared to SQL databases.

Abstract: Structural XQuery and XPath queries are often modeled by twig pattern queries (TPQs) specifying predicates on XML nodes and structural relationships to be satisfied between them. This paper ...