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.
Then, use the previously mentioned techniques to transfer data to a later version database. You can choose to write the XML into an XML column in the later version database directly. Bulk loading XML data. You can bulk load XML data into the server by using the bulk loading capabilities of SQL Server, such as bcp. OPENROWSET allows you to load data into an XML column from files.