Select XML from varchar(max) column
I have some XML data stored in a varchar(max) column on SQL Server 2005. The data is in the form (FQTN = fully qualified type name):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<History xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchem开发者_开发知识库a-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<EntityViews>
<EntityProxy Type="FQTN" Key="386876" />
<EntityProxy Type="FQTN" Key="387981" />
<!-- etc. -->
</EntityViews>
</History>
How can I select Type, Key so that I get a tabular result from the XML data in this column for a single row? The table has an identity primary key named HistoryId.
;with cteCastToXML as (
select CAST(YourColumn as xml) as x
from YourTable
)
select h.ep.value('@Type','varchar(10)') as [Type],
h.ep.value('@Key', 'varchar(10)') as [Key]
from cteCastToXML
cross apply x.nodes('/History/EntityViews/EntityProxy') as h(ep)
My recommendation would be two fold.
- If this is what you will be doing with the column, change the column to be an XML column.
- If you need to do this one time, look at taking the value and converting it to XML, then you can operate on it like you would normally. (Here is a link on how to convert).
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