Thursday, November 1, 2012

SQL Server : Use XQuery On XML Data Types

XQuery is to XML what SQL is to database tables.   XQuery is designed to query XML data - not just XML files, but anything that can appear as XML, including databases.  In SQL Server, there are five methods that you can use to speed up your xquery to a column of type “xml:”  query(), value(), exist(), modify(), and nodes().  I’ll cover the first, and most commonly used, three.
For the purpose of this example, I will use the following sample xml in field “XmlField :”

<msg>
  <head>  
    <Id>X9356G356Y</Id>
  </head>
  <body>
    <ReturnedResponse>
      <Response>
        <ReturnCode>0</ReturnCode>      
        <Message>SUCCESS</Message>
      </Response>    
      <Customer>
   <CustomerId>CID459283</CustomerId>
        <State>NV</State>
 <Name>
  <FirstLast>Name1_Name2 </FirstLast>
        </Name>
      </Customer>
    </ReturnedResponse>
  </body>
</msg>

--XPATH Examples

--.value
SELECT  A.TransDate, A.MainId,
XmlField.value('/msg[1]/body[1]/ReturnedResponse[1]/Customer[1]/CustomerId[1]', 'VARCHAR(25)') as xCustomerId
FROM TABLE2 B WITH (NOLOCK)
INNER JOIN TABLE1 A WITH (NOLOCK) ON B.APk = A.MainId
WHERE
A.MainId = 'HI05491882'

--.exist
SELECT  A.TransDate, A.MainId,
XmlField.value('/msg[1]/body[1]/ReturnedResponse[1]/Customer[1]/CustomerId[1]', 'VARCHAR(25)') as xCustomerId
FROM TABLE2 B WITH (NOLOCK)
INNER JOIN TABLE1 A WITH (NOLOCK) ON B.APk = A.MainId
WHERE
A.MainId = 'HI05491882'
AND XmlField.exist('/msg/body/ReturnedResponse/Customer/CustomerId') = 1

--.query
SELECT XmlField.query('/msg/body/ReturnedResponse/Customer/CustomerId')
FROM TABLE2 B WITH (NOLOCK)
INNER JOIN TABLE1 A WITH (NOLOCK) ON B.APk = A.MainId
WHERE
A.MainId = 'HI05491882'




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