I gave a presentation on XQuery at the NovaSQL user group that meets in Vienna, Virginia.

Jeremy Kadlec and Brian Moran run a great program. The turnout was very good, too. Lots of SQL experts.

Do you know how you can tell if you are giving a presentation to people that are SQL experts? You can tell that they are when you try to do a SELECT statement, and you get the dreaded Invalid object name error. Before you can blink you hear twenty-thirty voices saying, "You're in the Master database!"

I had a great deal of fun talking about XQuery with a very savvy crowd.

Attached to this post are my PowerPoint slides from the presentation.