sql xquey

Yes, you would use XQuery support.

For example:

declare @xml xml;
set @xml = '
  John Smith42
  Jane Smith36
';

select @xml.query('//c[@id="name"]')

You can also get value using:

@xml.value({xpath}, {datatype})

Reference can be found here:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345122(SQL.90).aspx

@mwvisa1

This is so weird.. I had this open since 3 hours ago, came back and refreshed - no posts.
But I can now see your posts from more than 1/2 hr ago!

No worries, @cyberkiwi, it happens. *smile*

Here is what I am trying to do
The XML data is stored in a database as binary data
I would like to convert the data into XML and then read the node

see below:
declare @varBin varbinary(max);
declare @xml xml
set @varBin = (select XMLdata
from Table)

set @xml = cast(@varBin as varchar(max))

select @xml.query('//c[@id="name"]')

What errors are you getting?
Can you post one row of the varbinary data so we can try playing with it?

Note this is related, but a little different than "I need to search through an XML string for a specific node." Not a big deal, just that the specific question you asked was answered and it is probably best to have had a question on converting your data to XML so that you could have added the necessary detail information that cyberkiwi is now asking for there.

Anyway, will help with this too.

This is a small snippet of the XML

<SurveyID xmlns="">12345</SurveyID>
   <SurveyDate xmlns="l">3/20/2009</SurveyDate>
     <SubmitDate xmlns="">6/19/2009</SubmitDate>
        <Resurvey xmlns="l">true</Resurvey>

in this case I am looking for the SubmitDate.

that worked! I think I had the node id wrong.
thank you.

Ah, glad that helped.

Best regards and happy coding,
Kevin