Ranjith (ra**************@hotmail.com) writes:
'message' Field Data:
<xml>
...
<test>ABC</test>
...
</xml>
How do I query out 'ABC' from this xml field data in a SQL Server?
Assume message field is in table 'Persons'
create table Persons (message xml NOT NULL)
go
insert Persons (message) VALUES('<xml><test>ABC</test></xml>')
go
select message.value(N'(/xml/test)[1]', 'varchar(10)')
from Persons
go
Drop table Persons
This is for SQL 2005. You did not mention which server of SQL Server
you are using. This matters a lot when XML is involved, as the XML
support in SQL 2005 is greatly extended over what is in SQL 2000,
including a new query language, XQuery which I'm using above.
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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP,
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