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I have inherited a production system that needs some fine tuning to enable easy extract of the result set. A record gets added to a table which contains an XML field, with contents similar to the below:

<PROG>PROGX_</PROG><STNTYPE>LEAKTEST</STNTYPE><STNID>S1</STNID><TRCODE>SN_REQUEST</TRCODE><OPERATORID>222</OPERATORID><PARTID>PARTID</PARTID><TRSTATUS>0000</TRSTATUS><TRTEXT>TEST OK</TRTEXT><T1_USL>0.45</T1_USL><T1_LSL>-0.45</T1_LSL><T1_RESULT>05,CC/M</T1_RESULT><T1_STATUS>OK</T1_STATUS><OVERALL_RESULT>1</OVERALL_RESULT><OVERALL_STATUS>OK</OVERALL_STATUS>

However, I believe the formatting of the XML is invalid and I want to be able to clean this up a bit, by adding a root and grouping this a bit better. Something similar to along the lines of:

<RESULTSET>
    <PROG>PROGX_</PROG>
    <STNTYPE>LEAKTEST</STNTYPE>
    <STNID>S1</STNID>
    ...etc...
    <OVERALL_STATUS>OK</OVERALL_STATUS>
</RESULTSET>

(The idea being then that I can use SQL views to then properly split this).

Any ideas if this is possible? I'm new to XML on SQL.

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  • What do you mean by "clean this up a bit"?
    – McNets
    Dec 17, 2018 at 10:24
  • Improve the structure, add the grouping node etc. I then want to be able to correctly parse this using a view into the child components as I then need to do some analysis on some of the results being captured.
    – AdzzzUK
    Dec 17, 2018 at 10:27

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You can get this information on SQL Server without adding a root element:

create table tbl (foo xml);

insert into tbl values ('<PROG>PROGX_</PROG><STNTYPE>LEAKTEST</STNTYPE><STNID>S1</STNID><TRCODE>SN_REQUEST</TRCODE><OPERATORID>222</OPERATORID><PARTID>PARTID</PARTID><TRSTATUS>0000</TRSTATUS><TRTEXT>TEST OK</TRTEXT><T1_USL>0.45</T1_USL><T1_LSL>-0.45</T1_LSL><T1_RESULT>05,CC/M</T1_RESULT><T1_STATUS>OK</T1_STATUS><OVERALL_RESULT>1</OVERALL_RESULT><OVERALL_STATUS>OK</OVERALL_STATUS>
');
select 
    foo.value('(/PROG)[1]', 'nvarchar(100)') PROG,
    foo.value('(/STNTYPE)[1]', 'nvarchar(100)') STNTYPE,
    foo.value('(/STNID)[1]', 'nvarchar(100)') STNID
from   tbl;
GO
PROG   | STNTYPE  | STNID
:----- | :------- | :----
PROGX_ | LEAKTEST | S1   

db<>fiddle here

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  • Thanks for this approach. I figured there was an alternative method to get what I needed, and this does it. Much appreciated.
    – AdzzzUK
    Dec 17, 2018 at 13:16
  • I'm glad to help.
    – McNets
    Dec 17, 2018 at 13:29

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