Service Broker — how to extract the rows from the XML message?

Question

Say I have the following situation (for demonstration). The simple table content is converted to an XML value and sent via Service Broker to another SQL server where the res

Answer 1

CREATE TABLE tab (a int, b int, c int); 
GO 

INSERT INTO tab (a, b, c) VALUES (1, 11, 111); 
INSERT INTO tab (a, b, c) VALUES (2, 22, 222); 
INSERT INTO tab (a, b, c) VALUES (3, 33, 333); 
INSERT INTO tab (a, b, c) VALUES (4, 44, 444); 
GO 

CREATE TABLE tab_destination (a int, b int, c int); 
go

declare @x xml = (SELECT * FROM tab FOR XML RAW, TYPE); 

insert into tab_destination (a, b, c)
select 
    x.value('@a', 'int'),
    x.value('@c', 'int'),
    x.value('@b', 'int')
    from @x.nodes('//row') t(x);
GO 

select * from tab_destination;
go

Time to read xml Data Type Methods

Answer 2

And other option (i would prefer Remus Rusanu example though.. If a lots of columns and table structures are the same, this helps get lazy):

declare @x xml = (SELECT * FROM tab FOR XML RAW, root('tab'), TYPE); 

Declare @docHandle int  
EXEC sp_xml_preparedocument @docHandle OUTPUT, @x

Select *
FROM OPENXML(@docHandle, 'tab//', 1) 
With dbo.Tab

EXEC sp_xml_removedocument @docHandle