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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."

6 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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  2. Use a web server by truthsearch · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No more SOAP-based Web services for your SQL Server database?

    Not exactly. It means no more SOAP-based Web services directly served from your SQL Server. Now you have to go back to using a web server application like god intended.

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  3. Confucius say by Profane+MuthaFucka · · Score: 5, Funny

    Confucius say "Microsoft wrong again. Computer programmers need more soap, not less."

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  4. Re:Lather, Rinse, Repeat by Simon+(S2) · · Score: 5, Funny

    SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol)

    Actually no: since SOAP version 1.2 SOAP is not an acronym anymore because it has nothing that is "simple".

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  5. 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

  6. Re:Lather, Rinse, Repeat by rishistar · · Score: 5, Funny

    My girlfriend keeps insisting on me using SOAP before we interface - now I know its Microsofts fault.

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