In this article you saw how to take advantage of the new XML data type and XML schema collection database object within SQL Server 2005 to save InfoPath forms as strongly typed XML to a database table. With XML schema collections you can define multiple XML schemas on one XML table column and, thus, also save InfoPath forms with different XML schemas to one XML table column.

Due to limitations of XML schema collections in SQL Server, you will not always be able to use typed XML table columns to save your InfoPath forms in, so you may have to resort to using untyped XML table columns.

Finally, you saw how to use an ASP.NET page to submit your InfoPath forms to SQL Server and save them as XML.