title: Reading XML string from a SQL Server database using C#
body: <p>I'm storing an XML as a string in a column of a table I have in SQL Server 2008. I'm thinking of using Linq-to-XML to read the string as an <code>XElement</code>.</p>
  
  <p>My question is, would using Linq-to-XML make the process of reading the xml from the table column slower?</p>