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In my last post, I had given a brief overview of web services and it many components.

From my perspective, web services are very useful when provided by a database and it is a safe way to indirectly expose data to an external source without having to provide direct access to the data.
 
The following is a great article which describes how web services can be hosted by sql server 2005/2008 
 
http://www.developer.com/net/asp/article.php/3767311/Creating-Native-Web-Services-in-SQL-Server.htm