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Can anyone please suggest how to concatenate the rows of a dataset (that has only 1 column and 1000 rows) that are of datatype xml.
+ operator is not being helpful as it is incompatible with xml and varchar datatypes?
Pls suggest the query to perform this task.

Posted 20-Nov-10 7:37am

Aksh@169

Updated 20-Nov-10 7:38am

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E.F. Nijboer · Answer 1 · 2010-11-20T08:56:00

Solution 1

Have a look at the link below that has some options for this:
http://www.projectdmx.com/tsql/rowconcatenate.aspx[^]

Good luck!

Posted 20-Nov-10 8:56am

E.F. Nijboer

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Aksh@169 21-Nov-10 1:46am

Thanks For Your reply.. But again the problem is that i have to concatenate the rows which are of DATA TYPE XML....... please help me out.

E.F. Nijboer 22-Nov-10 3:44am

If you look at the "The blackbox XML methods" on that page you'll see that you can specify a path that can select the desired element for each row. An example below (from msdn file link given) that shows how to select rows into a single xml.

SELECT (SELECT * FROM Customers FOR XML AUTO, TYPE).query(
'<doc>{
for $c in /Customers
return
<Person name="{data($c/@ContactName)}"/>
}')

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345137%28SQL.90%29.aspx

RDBurmon · Answer 2 · 2010-11-21T18:43:00

Solution 2

Use cast

CAST(xml_val AS NVARCHAR(MAX) + ..............

Posted 21-Nov-10 18:43pm

RDBurmon