.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 know you tagged the question SQL 2005, but you should consider upgrading to SQL 2008 and using the wonderful new compression capabilities that come with it. Is out-of-the-box, transparent for your application and will save you a huge implementation/test/support cost.