SQL Server XML Column Performance
问题 Converting nText columns which contained XML to the XML data type has resulted in worse performance in SQL Server. I am currently working on a project where nText columns have been used to store valid XML. I have successfully migrated these columns to the XML data type. However according to SQL Profiler the performance of the XML data type is worse than using nText or nvarchar(max) to store the XML. Everything I have read implies that this should not be the case. In order to verify this I