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Microsoft Rinses SOAP Out of SQL Server 2008

Posted by timothy on from the squish-splurtsch-splqlsh dept.

Julie188 writes "A Microsoft SQL Server 2005 fan toppled over in surprise when he got this error message from SQL Server 2008 (he was running the SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Advisor tool): 'In SQL Server 2008, SQL Server native SOAP has been deprecated and will be removed in a future SQL Server release ... Avoid use of SQL server native SOAP in new development work, and plan to modify applications that currently use it.' No more SOAP-based Web services for your SQL Server database? Native XML was only added in v.2005 and was much ballyhooed at that time."

2 of 109 comments (clear)

  1. it won't be missed by inmate · · Score: 5, Informative

    as a developer on sql2005, i found very little use for it. the xml parsing and displaying functionality will remain in 2008, only the native xml webservices are being pulled. it made no sense anyway, it had nothing of the richness that asp.net web services offer and made most administrators nervous about its security (and rightly so!) why anyone in their right minds would have used it...i don't know!

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    --- blackironprison, where ignorance is bliss....
  2. Poster's comment misleading by code+addict · · Score: 5, Informative

    I think that poster's comment is a little misleading. From the article and linked materials it would appear that only integrated SOAP web services are deprecated, and not native XML as the poster implies.

    Details of deprecated features here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms143729.aspx