For 100% polyester fabrics use 1.5 lb. of dye per 100 lbs. of fabric (1.5% OWG) to get medium shades. (With black, you are going to get more of a charcoal grey with this product.) That would be 6 - 4 oz packets, so 3 for 50 lbs. of fabric, etc.
XML data type was introduced in SQL Server 2005. This type allows you to store XML data up to 2 GB. Here is a small example of, pretty much self-explanatory.
Hello I'm trying to insert some XML data into a table on SQL Server 2008. However I keep getting thrown this error; XML parsing: line 1, character 39, unable to switch the encoding. The database column filemeta uses the XML datatype, and I've switch the encoding to UTF-16 which I believe is necessary for adding XML data. Help, I'm stuck. NB: I created the XML with XMLTextWriter.