How to Read Xml Column in SQL Server 2008

How do you read XML column in SQL Server 2008?

Try something like this:

SELECT
   Cust.value('(ItemId)[1]', 'int') AS 'ItemID',
   Cust.value('(Value)[1]', 'Varchar(50)') AS 'Customer Name'
FROM
   dbo.Sales.CustomerList.nodes('/ArrayOfCustomers/Customer') AS AOC(Cust)

That should give you an output something like this:

ItemID  Customer Name
   1         Mr Smith
   2         Mr Bloggs

How to query xml column in tsql

How about this?

SELECT 
    EventID, EventTime,
    AnnouncementValue = t1.EventXML.value('(/Event/Announcement/Value)[1]', 'decimal(10,2)'),
    AnnouncementDate = t1.EventXML.value('(/Event/Announcement/Date)[1]', 'date')
FROM
    dbo.T1
WHERE
    t1.EventXML.exist('/Event/Indicator/Name[text() = "GDP"]') = 1

It will find all rows where the /Event/Indicator/Name equals GDP and then it will display the <Announcement>/<Value> and <Announcement>/<Date> for those rows.

See SQLFiddle demo

Select values from XML field in SQL Server 2008

Given that the XML field is named 'xmlField'...

SELECT 
[xmlField].value('(/person//firstName/node())[1]', 'nvarchar(max)') as FirstName,
[xmlField].value('(/person//lastName/node())[1]', 'nvarchar(max)') as LastName
FROM [myTable]

Read XML document stored in SQL Server 2008 R2 with XML datatype

You can try something like this:

SELECT
    Barcode = Container.value('(BARCODE)[1]', 'int'),
    CategoryID = Container.value('(CATEGORYID)[1]', 'int'),
    Name = Container.value('(NAME)[1]', 'varchar(50)'),
    GWT = Container.value('(GWT)[1]', 'decimal(10, 3)'),
    NWT = Container.value('(NWT)[1]', 'decimal(10, 3)'),
    LAM = Container.value('(LAM)[1]', 'decimal(10, 3)'),
    QTY = Container.value('(QTY)[1]', 'int'),
    Quantity = Container.value('(QUANTITY)[1]', 'int'),
    Remarks = Container.value('(REMARKS)[1]', 'varchar(50)')
FROM
    dbo.YourTableHere
CROSS APPLY 
    XmlColumnHere.nodes('/container/NewDataSet/Containers') AS T(Container)
WHERE
    ID = 1

This will produce an output something like this (for your given sample data):

How to read XML column in SQL Server 2008?

with xmlnamespaces('http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/myXSD/2014-03-29T09:41:23' as my)
select M.XMLData.value('(/my:myFields/my:field1/text())[1]', 'int') as field1,
       M.XMLData.value('(/my:myFields/my:field2/text())[1]', 'int') as field2,
       M.XMLData.value('(/my:myFields/my:field3/text())[1]', 'bit') as field3,
       M.XMLData.value('(/my:myFields/my:FormName/text())[1]', 'datetime') as FormName,
       (
         select ','+R.X.value('text()[1]', 'nvarchar(max)')
         from M.XMLData.nodes('/my:myFields/my:Repeating') as R(X)
         for xml path(''), type
       ).value('substring(text()[1], 2)', 'nvarchar(max)') as Repeating
from XMLMain as M

Result:

field1      field2      field3 FormName                Repeating
----------- ----------- ------ ----------------------- -----------------------
1           2           1      2014-04-01 15:11:47.000 hi,hello,how are  you?

How to read a part of an XML as an XML in SQL Server 2008 R2

You're close - just use .query('.') for your second column:

SELECT
      T.C.value('(../@id)','int') AS UserID, 
      T.C.query('.') AS DepartmentsXML 
FROM 
@XML.nodes('/Main/User/Departments[@isSingle="0"]') AS T(C)

This will return the XML fragment as selected by the .nodes() call, as an XML.

Efficiently query a XML column in SQL table

You can try this, which is about half the cost of the query you posted. The advantage is that it does not have to convert XML data to SQL data, which lowers the overhead:

DECLARE @Address varchar(210) = UPPER('user entered text')

SELECT  *
FROM    tblXMLData
WHERE   XMLColumn.exist('/Session/Entries/Entry[@DataItemId="Address.Line1" and contains(upper-case(.), sql:variable("@Address"))]') = 1

If you find that you run this type of queries a lot, you can also consider XML index

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