I’ve been working on a project recently that requires using XML in SQL Server, so I’ve been searching the web to find references. Books Online is unusually obtuse on this subject (the samples are sub-par for this complex subject), so I’ve been trying to find good examples of how it works. Here’s some of the better ones:
Passing lists to SQL Server 2005 with XML Parameters Jon Galloway gives a short and sweet example of shredding an XML variable into rows.
XQuery Inside SQL Server 2005 A longer set of examples using CROSS APPLY to associate XML data in a column to a value in a standard column. This is probably the most important query I needed, because we have a lot of XML values (config files) that are stored in a table; those config files are specific to particular clients.
SQL Server 2008 Books Online Here’s the basic data elements; again, the vocabulary is dense, but you at least need to know where it is.
Now, on to FLWOR (which I’m just beginning to study): Blooming FLWOR – An Introduction to the XQuery FLWOR Expression
