How to read from the XML column in SQL Server

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Hi,
I need to get the result in the format

HeadId MinExp maxEmp Rate
9 4 5 45
29 6 8 76
and so on..

from the following XML stored in sql server table' column named "Configuration" and whose type is "XML"

XML

<PARAMS>
<Experience HeadId="9" MinExp="4" MaxExp="5" Rate="45" />
<Experience HeadId="29" MinExp="6" MaxExp="8" Rate="76" />
<Experience HeadId="31" MinExp="9" MaxExp="12" Rate="90" />
<Experience HeadId="32" MinExp="13" MaxExp="18" Rate="100" />
<Experience HeadId="33" MinExp="19" MaxExp="50" Rate="200" />
</PARAMS>

Please help me.

Posted 14-Jul-14 19:55pm

Anubhav Goel

Updated 14-Jul-14 19:56pm

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George Jonsson 15-Jul-14 4:31am

Do you want to do this in a stored procedure or in, for example, c#?

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SRS(The Coder) · Answer 1 · 2014-07-14T23:53:00

Here is a solution which will be definitely of help to you :-

SQL

declare @val xml
set @val = '<PARAMS>
			<Experience HeadId="9" MinExp="4" MaxExp="5" Rate="45" />
			<Experience HeadId="29" MinExp="6" MaxExp="8" Rate="76" />
			<Experience HeadId="31" MinExp="9" MaxExp="12" Rate="90" />
			<Experience HeadId="32" MinExp="13" MaxExp="18" Rate="100" />
			<Experience HeadId="33" MinExp="19" MaxExp="50" Rate="200" />
		</PARAMS>';

SELECT  x.node.value('(@HeadId)[1]', 'int') As HeadId,
        x.node.value('(@MinExp)[1]', 'int') AS MinExp,
        x.node.value('(@MaxExp)[1]', 'int') AS MaxExp,
        x.node.value('(@Rate)[1]', 'int') AS Rate
FROM    @val.nodes('/PARAMS/Experience') AS x(node)

Here @val is the xml type variable which holds the xml for me.
We can use any xml type column in place of this variable to get the values from it as requirement.

ArunRajendra · Answer 2 · 2014-07-14T20:29:00

Solution 1

Check this linke its similar to you requirement

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14418256/extracting-data-in-a-record-from-xml-in-sql-server-column[^]

Posted 14-Jul-14 20:29pm

ArunRajendra