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How can you you be sure that a SOAP queries that are looking for a WSDL response will be provided?
You are setting up a native XML web service on your SQL Server 2005 to respond to inventory requests. How can you you be sure that a SOAP queries that are looking for a WSDL response will be provided?
Answer
Use the WSDL=DEFAULT parameter in the create endpoint statement.
Explanation
When using the CREATE ENDPOINT command, you can specify the WSDL=DEFAULT parameter to generate a default WSDL response or use WSDL="spname" where spname is the name of a custom stored procedure to return WSDL responses.
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