.NET compression of XML to store in SQL Server database

Question

Currently our .NET application constructs XML data in memory that we persist to a SQL Server database. The XElement object is converted to a string using ToString() and then

Answer 1

I think you should also re-test the XML column. It stores in binary, I know, not as text. It could be smaller, and may not perform badly, even if you don't actually need the additional features.