sqlxml

XML sent from code to the SQL server. My XML as looks like this: Declare @MainXML XML= '<root> <a>JJ</a> <a>KK</a> </root>' From the above xml, I want to store 2 as being the count of child elements "a" under a column1 in SQL. Column1 ------- 2 Can you help me with this? I'd do this with xpath : select @MainXML.query('count(root/a)') sql fiddle demo If you're using mssql server then you can take advantage of the OPENXML support. You can get the count of the a nodes by using a SELECT on the parsed XML: Declare @MainXML XML = '<root> <a>JJ</a> <a>KK</a> </root>' SELECT COUNT(MainXML.A.value('.',

I am obviously missing something right in front of me, however I have this SQL 2008 XML query as follows: select distinct cast(customFields_xml.query('data(/root/cf_item_type)') as varchar) as c1 from designs .. what I am actually trying to achieve is to make the "cf_item_type" a variable, because I want to pass in the node as a param to a proc.. So in reality, I am trying to end up with something like: (@cf would be passed as a param, but declaring for example use) declare @cf varchar set @cf='cf_item_type' select distinct cast(customFields_xml.query('data(/root/@cf)') as varchar) as cloth

Here's my scenario: --ORDER table OrderID OrderCode DateShipped ShipmentXML 1 ABC 08/06/2013 <Order><Item CustomerName="BF" City="Philadelphia" State="PA"></Item></Order> 2 XYZ 08/05/2013 <Order><Item CustomerName="TJ" City="Richmond" State="VA"></Item></Order> At some point in the process, I will know the respective TrackingNumber for these Orders. The tracking numbers are available in another table like this: --TRACKING table TrackingID OrderCode TrackingNumber 98 ABC 1Z1 99 XYZ 1Z2 The output I'm expecting is as below: OrderID OrderCode ShipmentXML 1 ABC <Order><Item CustomerName="BF" City=

I seem to always have problems with converting data to and from XML in C#. It always wants you to create a full XMLDocument object even when you think you shouldn't have to. In this case I have a SQLXML column in a MS SQL 2005 server that I am trying to pull out and push into a function that requires an XMLNode as a parameter. You would think this would be easy, but outside of converting it to a string and creating a new XMLNode object I cannot figure out the right way to do it. I can use an SqlDataReader, the sqlComm.ExecuteReader() to load the reader, and sqlReader.GetSqlXml(0) to get the

I've tried using "FOR XML PATH", "FOR XML EXPLICIT" and "FOR XML AUTO" but the data is never structured with the correct heirarchy. Basically, I have one parent table (Customers) and 3 child tables. Each table has a customerid column. There is a one-to-many relationship from the Customers table to each of the 3 child tables. As a mock example, I have a parent "Customers" table, and I have 3 other tables - Products, Hobbies and Vehicles - all related to the Customers table by a customerid. What is the SQL code to achieve the following kind of structure - <Customers> <Customer customerid="1"