Im working on a script that will allow me to save the xml data in a table. This will be used to compare with other tables which also contains an xml data.
I've been successful so far for simple node tags, but have encountered an issue when trying to store the data from a list.
The XML data looks like this:Sample XML Data
And my query is this:
XML Query display
I am able to get the 'TypeCode' as the main node but for the value, it's always showing blank. I'm not sure how to handle the list in XML.
I'm thinking as long as I can save the data
''
'' as text in the Value column, then I can find another way to parse it and display it in a nicer way as another query.
Any help is appreciated :D Thanks!
For your next question: Please do not post pictures. I had to type this in... Please provide consumable data, best as a stand-alone example to reproduce your issue.
DECLARE #xml XML=
'<Codes>
<TypeCodes type="list">
<item key="A" text="A1"/>
<item key="C" text="C1"/>
</TypeCodes>
</Codes>';
--the Xml "as is"
SELECT #xml;
--fetch one value with XQuery
SELECT #xml.value('(/Codes/TypeCodes/item[#key="A"]/#text)[1]','varchar(10)');
--fetch all items as list
SELECT #xml.value('(/Codes/TypeCodes/#type)[1]','varchar(10)') AS TypeCode_type
,i.value('#key','varchar(10)') AS item_key
,i.value('#text','varchar(10)') AS item_text
FROM #xml.nodes('/Codes/TypeCodes/item') A(i);
check it out
Good day,
SQL Server include special data type XML which is what you should use in order to store your XML data.
declare #MyXML XML = '
<codes>
<Type>
<Item key="1" />
</Type>
</codes>
'
select #MyXML
Here is example of using table:
DROP TABLE IF eXISTS T;
CREATE TABLE T(MyXML XML)
GO
INSERT T(MyXML) values ('
<codes>
<Type>
<Item key="1" />
</Type>
</codes>
')
SELECT * FROM T
GO
For more information check this documentation:
XML Data Type and Columns (SQL Server)
Related
I currently have an XML I am pulling from a column in SQL formatted like this:
<Datas>
<CHILD value="test" />
</Datas>
I need a way to grab the value in the CHILD tag but I am having some issues I believe to be stemming from it being a self closing tag. I am able to get the data if it was formatted in this format:
<Datas>
<CHILD>test</CHILD>
</Datas>
However, this format is not an option as the application I'm pulling from does not store it this way.
I have tried the following SQL:
select cast(xmlField as xml) xmlField into tmp from (
select '<Datas><CHILD value = "test"/></Datas>' xmlField
) tb
SELECT
xmlField.value('(Datas/CHILD)[1]', 'nvarchar(max)') as Data
FROM tmp
drop table tmp
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks!
The problem isn't that it's self closing, it's that you want to access an attribute. For those you need to use the attribute's name prefixed with an #:
SELECT xmlField.value('(Datas/CHILD/#value)[1]', 'nvarchar(max)') AS Data
FROM tmp;
I do have to replicate an XML file with SQL Server and I am now stumbling over the following structure inside the XML file and I don't know how to replicate that.
The structure looks like this at the moment for certain tags:
<ART_TAG1>
<UNMLIMITED/>
</ART_TAG1>
<ART_TAG2>
<ART_TAG3>
<Data_Entry/>
</ART_TAG3>
</ART_TAG2>
I am wondering if this is proper XML that the data inside (unlimited and Data_Entry) is enclosed with a closing XML tag. The XML validator https://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_validator.asp is telling me this is correct. But now I am struggling with replicating that with Transact-SQL.
If I try to replicate that I can only come up with the following TSQL script, which obviously does not fully look like the original.
SELECT 'UNLIMITED' as 'ART_TAG1'
, 'Data_Entry' as 'ART_TAG2/ART_TAG3'
FOR XML PATH(''), ROOT('root')
<root>
<ART_TAG1>UNLIMITED</ART_TAG1>
<ART_TAG2>
<ART_TAG3>Data_Entry</ART_TAG3>
</ART_TAG2>
</root>
If I get this correctly, your question is:
How can I put my query to create those <SomeElement /> tags?
Look at this:
--This will create filled nodes
SELECT 'outer' AS [OuterNode/#attr]
,'inner' AS [OuterNode/InnerNode]
FOR XML PATH('row');
--The empty string is some kind of content
SELECT 'outer' AS [OuterNode/#attr]
,'' AS [OuterNode/InnerNode]
FOR XML PATH('row');
--the missing value (NULL) is omited by default
SELECT 'outer' AS [OuterNode/#attr]
,NULL AS [OuterNode/InnerNode]
FOR XML PATH('row');
--Now check what happens here:
--First XML has an empty element, while the second uses the self-closing element
DECLARE #xml1 XML=
N'<row>
<OuterNode attr="outer">
<InnerNode></InnerNode>
</OuterNode>
</row>';
DECLARE #xml2 XML=
N'<row>
<OuterNode attr="outer">
<InnerNode/>
</OuterNode>
</row>';
SELECT #xml1,#xml2;
The result is the same for both...
Some background: Semantically the empty element <element></element> is exactly the same as the self-closing element <element />. It should not make any difference, whether you use the one or the other. If your consumer cannot deal with this, it is a problem in the reading part.
Yes, you can force any content into XML on string level, but - as the example shows above - this is just a (dangerous) hack.
XML within T-SQL returns - by default - a missing node as NULL and an empty element as empty (depending on the datatype, and beware of the difference between an element and its text() node).
In short: This is nothing you should have to think about...
I have read dozens of posts and have tried numerous SQL queries to try and get this figured out. Sadly, I'm not a SQL expert (not even a novice) nor am I an XML expert. I understand basic queries from SQL, and understand XML tags, mostly.
I'm trying to query a database table, and have the data show a list of values from a column that contains XML. I'll give you an example of the data. I won't burden you with everything I have tried.
Here is an example of field inside of the column I need. So this is just one row, I would need to query the whole table to get all of the data I need.
When I select * from [table name] it returns hundreds of rows and when I double click in the column name of 'Document' on one row, I get the information I need.
It looks like this:
<code_set xmlns="">
<name>ExampleCodeTable</name>
<last_updated>2010-08-30T17:49:58.7919453Z</last_updated>
<code id="1" last_updated="2010-01-20T17:46:35.1658253-07:00"
start_date="1998-12-31T17:00:00-07:00"
end_date="9999-12-31T16:59:59.9999999-07:00">
<entry locale="en-US" name="T" description="Test1" />
</code>
<code id="2" last_updated="2010-01-20T17:46:35.1658253-07:00"
start_date="1998-12-31T17:00:00-07:00"
end_date="9999-12-31T16:59:59.9999999-07:00">
<entry locale="en-US" name="Z" description="Test2" />
</code>
<displayExpression>[Code] + ' - ' + [Description]</displayExpression>
<sortColumn>[Description]</sortColumn>
</code_set>
Ideally I would write it so it runs the query on the table and produces results like this:
Code Description
--------------------
(Data) (Data)
Any ideas? Is it even possible? The dozens of things I have tried that are always posted in stack, either return Nulls or fail.
Thanks for your help
Try something like this:
SELECT
CodeSetId = xc.value('#id', 'int'),
Description = xc.value('(entry/#description)[1]', 'varchar(50)')
FROM
dbo.YourTableNameHere
CROSS APPLY
YourXmlColumn.nodes('/code_set/code') AS XT(XC)
This basically uses the built-in XQuery to get an "in-memory" table (XT) with a single column (XC), each containing an XML fragment that represents each <code> node inside your <code_set> root node.
Once you have each of these XML fragments, you can use the .value() XQuery operator to "reach in" and grab some pieces of information from it, e.g. it's #id (attribute by the name of id), or the #description attribute on the contained <entry> subelement.
The following query will read the xml field in every row, then shred certain values into a tabular result set.
SELECT
-- get attribute [attribute name] from the parent node
parent.value('./#attribute name','varchar(max)') as ParentAttributeValue,
-- get the text value of the first child node
child.value('./text()', 'varchar(max)') as ChildNodeValueFromFirstChild,
-- get attribute attribute [attribute name] from the first child node
child.value('./#attribute name', 'varchar(max)') as ChildAttributeValueFromFirstChild
FROM
[table name]
CROSS APPLY
-- create a handle named parent that references that <parent node> in each row
[xml field name].nodes('//xpath to parent name') AS ParentName(parent)
CROSS APPLY
-- create a handle named child that references first <child node> in each row
parent.nodes('(xpath from parent/to child)[0]') AS FirstChildNode(child)
GO
Please provide the exact values you want to shred from the XML for a more precise answer.
I am new at this so please bear with me. I am attempting to transfer some XML data into Microsoft SQL Server. I am assuming that this data needs to be transferred as elements and not attributes because the contents of the columns will not be static.
However for some reason when I attempt to transfer the data as elements I get NULL values. But when I try to transfer this same data as attributes it works and looks the way it is supposed to. I am tempted to shrug and just move on but I'm worried that things might go awry for me if I do that later on down the road.
I already have some attributes from this XML that I managed to transfer as attributes which I plan to combine with these elements that are masquerading as attributes into a single table. Will it work? And if it does will there be problems down the road?
Here is my SQL code when I attempt to transfer the elements as elements:
SELECT *
FROM OPENXML (#hdoc, '/roll/voter', 2)
WITH (
id int,
[value] char(50),
[state] char(2))
Here is my SQL code when I attempt to transfer the elements as attributes:
SELECT *
FROM OPENXML (#hdoc, '/roll/voter', 1)
WITH (
id int,
[value] char(50),
[state] char(2))
Here is a miniaturized version of the XML document:
<roll>
<voter id="400048" value="Yea" state="FL" />
<voter id="412516" value="Yea" state="CA" />
</roll>
Here is a link to the xml document via google drive (very small XML): https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B5VgOwWcGeLHaWctRU56Qlk3UWM
A screenshot of my SQL query, the table results, and the XML
FROM OPENXML is outdated and should not be used anymore (rare exceptions exist)...
Try with the real XML methods:
DECLARE #xml XML=
N'<roll>
<voter id="400048" value="Yea" state="FL" />
<voter id="412516" value="Yea" state="CA" />
</roll>';
SELECT #xml.value(N'(/roll/voter/#id)[1]',N'int') AS voter_id
,#xml.value(N'(/roll/voter/#value)[1]',N'nvarchar(max)') AS voter_value
,#xml.value(N'(/roll/voter/#state)[1]',N'nvarchar(max)') AS voter_state
The result
voter_id voter_value voter_state
400048 Yea FL
Update: giving a much more thorough example.
The first two solutions offered were right along the lines of what I was trying to say not to do. I can't know location, it needs to be able to look at the whole document tree. So a solution along these lines, with /Books/ specified as the context will not work:
SELECT x.query('.') FROM #xml.nodes('/Books/*[not(#ID) or #ID = 5]') x1(x)
Original question with better example:
Using SQL Server 2005's XQuery implementation I need to select all nodes in an XML document, just once each and keeping their original structure, but only if they are missing a particular attribute, or that attribute has a specific value (passed in by parameter). The query also has to work on the whole XML document (descendant-or-self axis) rather than selecting at a predefined depth.
That is to say, each individual node will appear in the resultant document only if it and every one of its ancestors are missing the attribute, or have the attribute with a single specific value.
For example:
If this were the XML:
DECLARE #Xml XML
SET #Xml =
N'
<Library>
<Novels>
<Novel category="1">Novel1</Novel>
<Novel category="2">Novel2</Novel>
<Novel>Novel3</Novel>
<Novel category="4">Novel4</Novel>
</Novels>
<Encyclopedias>
<Encyclopedia>
<Volume>A-F</Volume>
<Volume category="2">G-L</Volume>
<Volume category="3">M-S</Volume>
<Volume category="4">T-Z</Volume>
</Encyclopedia>
</Encyclopedias>
<Dictionaries category="1">
<Dictionary>Webster</Dictionary>
<Dictionary>Oxford</Dictionary>
</Dictionaries>
</Library>
'
A parameter of 1 for category would result in this:
<Library>
<Novels>
<Novel category="1">Novel1</Novel>
<Novel>Novel3</Novel>
</Novels>
<Encyclopedias>
<Encyclopedia>
<Volume>A-F</Volume>
</Encyclopedia>
</Encyclopedias>
<Dictionaries category="1">
<Dictionary>Webster</Dictionary>
<Dictionary>Oxford</Dictionary>
</Dictionaries>
</Library>
A parameter of 2 for category would result in this:
<Library>
<Novels>
<Novel category="2">Novel2</Novel>
<Novel>Novel3</Novel>
</Novels>
<Encyclopedias>
<Encyclopedia>
<Volume>A-F</Volume>
<Volume category="2">G-L</Volume>
</Encyclopedia>
</Encyclopedias>
</Library>
I know XSLT is perfectly suited for this job, but it's not an option. We have to accomplish this entirely in SQL Server 2005. Any implementations not using XQuery are fine too, as long as it can be done entirely in T-SQL.
It's not clear for me from your example what you're actually trying to achieve. Do you want to return a new XML with all the nodes stripped out except those that fulfill the condition? If yes, then this looks like the job for an XSLT transform which I don't think it's built-in in MSSQL 2005 (can be added as a UDF: http://www.topxml.com/rbnews/SQLXML/re-23872_Performing-XSLT-Transforms-on-XML-Data-Stored-in-SQL-Server-2005.aspx).
If you just need to return the list of nodes then you can use this expression:
//Book[not(#ID) or #ID = 5]
but I get the impression that it's not what you need. It would help if you can provide a clearer example.
Edit: This example is indeed more clear. The best that I could find is this:
SET #Xml.modify('delete(//*[#category!=1])')
SELECT #Xml
The idea is to delete from the XML all the nodes that you don't need, so you remain with the original structure and the needed nodes. I tested with your two examples and it produced the wanted result.
However modify has some restrictions - it seems you can't use it in a select statement, it has to modify data in place. If you need to return such data with a select you could use a temporary table in which to copy the original data and then update that table. Something like this:
INSERT INTO #temp VALUES(#Xml)
UPDATE #temp SET data.modify('delete(//*[#category!=2])')
Hope that helps.
The question is not really clear, but is this what you're looking for?
DECLARE #Xml AS XML
SET #Xml =
N'
<Books>
<Book ID="1">Book1</Book>
<Book ID="2">Book2</Book>
<Book ID="3">Book3</Book>
<Book>Book4</Book>
<Book ID="5">Book5</Book>
<Book ID="6">Book6</Book>
<Book>Book7</Book>
<Book ID="8">Book8</Book>
</Books>
'
DECLARE #BookID AS INT
SET #BookID = 5
DECLARE #Result AS XML
SET #result = (SELECT #xml.query('//Book[not(#ID) or #ID = sql:variable("#BookID")]'))
SELECT #result