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SELECT on XML field type

I have a database with a column of type "xml". I have data such as this in the column:

<Customer>ABC Company</Customer>
<Customer>XYZ Company</Customer>
<OrderNo>123</OrderNo>
<Customer>ABC Company</Customer>

Can I run a SELECT statement to find all records that have a Customer of "ABC Company" in this column? In other words, the first and fourth records only?

How would I do this?

Thanks,
Chris

Chandan_Gowda

Please follow the below link i think it might help you
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189075.aspx

chlade

ASKER

Thanks. I can't seem to quite get it. Here is my SELECT statement:

SELECT keyInfo.query('declare namespace AWMI="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2004/07/adventure-works/ProductModelManuInstructions";
/AWMI:root[@Customer="ABC Company"]
') AS Result
FROM tblSQLEventLog

My data in the KeyInfo column looks like the examples in my first post.

What am I missing?

imitchie

SELECT *
FROM tblSQLEventLog
WHERE keyInfo.query('declare namespace AWMI="http://schemas.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2004/07/adventure-works/ProductModelManuInstructions";
/AWMI:root[@Customer="ABC Company"]
') Is not null

Chandan_Gowda

can u share the error message

chlade

ASKER

My original select statement was returning all rows but the columns showed up empty (not sure if it's null, spaces, or empty - to me it looks empty)

imitchie, I tried that but it returned all rows with the actual value in the column

imitchie

i think the xpath is incorrect, but test null is wrong. i'll test some more

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chlade

ASKER

I just copied the namespace part from another sample. It looks like it's not necessarily needed. But the SELECT statement you gave worked great.

Here's the statement I'm now using:
SELECT * FROM tblSQLEventLog
WHERE keyInfo.exist('/Customer[/="ABC Company"]') = 1

Thanks for the help!