Questions tagged [xml]
Short for 'eXtensible Markup Language.' A textual markup language for transferring structured data.
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SQL Server execution XML plan cut off in length
I am running the following standard query to retrieve the XML execution plan for queries that I ran on my SQL Server via command line.
SELECT pl.query_plan FROM sys.dm_exec_cached_plans ep CROSS APPLY ...
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Loading Extended Events ring buffer to SQL table using powershell
I am running a RPC_Completed extended event which outputs to a ring buffer.
While trying to read the data from the ring buffer target data, xQuery is taking too much of time.
The faster route was to ...
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json_modify on condition
As in my previous question, I am working on migrating my XML based procedures to JSON ones. My newest struggle is with json_modify
I'm used to using .modify with XPATH to be able to modify XMLs on the ...
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Enumerating JSON arrays with OPENJSON
I've been working on converting some of my XML based stored procedures to JSON, but I'm running into an issue.
With OPENXML, I had access to mp:id, so when I was parsing an XML, I could access an ...
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Execution time/cost of function in assembly
I have a query calling XmlTransform from Microsoft.MasterDataServices.DataQuality on about 1000 rows or so and it takes 30s to do the whole set (the XSL is in a fixed variable), is there any way to ...
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like in exist() xml mssql
By following question: See if XML element exists at any level in document with a specific value
Is there a possible solution to implement like clause within exist?
For example I have similar structure ...
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Merging two XML variables - please help!
I am using SQL Server Management Studio 17.9.1 with SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 2 (SP2).
There is no table structure to show, just two XML variables that contain XML, as shown below:
DECLARE @A XML = ...
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SQL Error 6304 - XML parsing: An unexpected error has occurred in the XML parser
I'm running SQL Server 2019 and not sure if it's related to this, but on SQL Server 2014 if I create a table as follows
CREATE TABLE MyTable
(
FieldA smallint NOT NULL,
FieldB xml NOT NULL
)
And ...
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Query xml multinode syntax
I have a table containing an XMLTYPE column that I have to parse and display contained values one per line:
Example 1 :
<c2>VLAN1</c2><c2 m="2">VLAN2</c2><c2 m=&...
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Do we have information about duration time of query in actual execution plan?
I am building application in C# which is parsing Actual Execution Plan. I need basic stats like Row count, CPU time, Page Reads etc. All above stats I found in XML of Actual Execution Plan. I can not ...
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SQL Server / XML.query() causes massive memory grant
The following (on my systems, tested on SQL Server 2016 and 2019 std) produces a massive memory grant request (3327 MB)
declare @wibble xml = '<wibble><wobble>1</wobble></wibble&...
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What are the benefits of using XML over CSV files in regards to data dumps? [closed]
Prologue
I've noticed that one benefit of using CSV over XML for data dumps is the fact that fewer disk space is used. See minimal working example below.
Let's suppose we have the following dataset. ...
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Properly pivot an XML column with XQuery
I would like to pivot the attributes and values of an SQL XML column and display it in an ordered columns and rows format.
To get started, this is what the XML column looks like in SQL:
<Model ...
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Msg 6355 "Conversion of one or more characters from XML to target collation impossible" when querying sys.dm_exec_query_plan
I like to find missing indexes on the go, looking at the execution plans!
It can potentially give me an indication where further to look at if I want to improve something that is currently running.
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How can parse column names using ordinal position (not name) from XML data in SQL Server?
I have several hundred tables in a database that have the same structure:
SomeId, Pos, Varying Number of Other Fields
So, for example, one table may look like this:
PersonId, Pos, Hobby, Degree
12345, ...
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How should I deal with sub attributes of xml data when loading onto mysql?
I have some xml files (example below). As you can see in the xml, id 4 has 3 entries for tax. When I load it right now, only the last entry gets inserted into the table.
How can I include all 3 of ...
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Why is SQL doing an index scan and seek with the same XML query structure?
I've set up a test to benchmark xml performance in SQL server.
Test Setup
One Million rows of data
XML defined Column with primary key
A primary XML index
A secondary XML index on the path
XML data ...
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How to open .bin SQL database?
I'm stuck and not sure if somebody had a similar issue.
I have an old database stored as .bin files. It dates back to 2012. I can see an xml catalogue file which indicates to me that it is some kind ...
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sqlserver - Insert from xml generated with `select for xml`
Is there a simple way to create an XML (file, variable, value in column, whatever) with select * from table for xml ... and later automatically insert this data into identical table in different ...
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EAV vs JSON/XML column approach to store complex user form data in a database? [closed]
We are working on an internal tool which will essentially be a complex, power-user oriented form app. It is not a dynamic field app - users can't define their own fields.
Form field types: The form ...
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OPENXML to get content by using element and attribute name
In this SQL Server OPENXML example:
declare @xmldata xml
set @xmldata =
'<?xml version="1.0"?>
<wddxPacket version="1.0">
<data>
<var ...
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Get the last ID from Multiple Stored Procedures Executed
So I have an XML file , to take data from it and insert into tables.
For this I’ve created 3 procedures(INSERTXMLMultipleTables,INSERTXMLNIAC,INSERTNIACFORCOMPONENTS).
The logic of these procedure is ...
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Error converting VARCHAR(MAX) to XML due to "UTF-8" attribute
I need to dig into a logs table with a schema similar to this:
CREATE TABLE t (
id int PRIMARY KEY,
data varchar(max)
);
Column data stores a XML text received from a web service in this format:
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Mix ;WITH NAMESPACES and schema collections?
I'm getting these xml files from a vendor, and it's a wrapper of NITF (news) schema and the http://www.xmlnews.org/namespaces/meta# news metadata schema (from Space 1999!)
Unfortunately, they don't ...
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Can you create a primary xml index in the CREATE TABLE statement (SQL Server)?
I'm creating a temporary table and would like to create a primary and secondary XML index on a contained xml column within the CREATE TABLE statement since that is the only way I can create an index ...
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How to allow for ampersand in XMLtable()?
Starting with this Q&A, note that while this works:
with data as (
select 'Hallöle slovenĈina Hallöle slovenđina' str from dual
)
select a.str, b.str2
from data a, xmltable( '/...
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How to convert xml entities to unicode characters (with read-only access) in Oracle?
I'm connected to an Oracle Database (11g Release 2 - 11.2.0.4), with read-only access.
Into this database, some of the data is uploaded via, or rather as, XML - and quite a few entries contain ...
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How to add Spatial Reference ID 28992 to MSSQL server?
I want to use Spatial Reference ID 28992, as found on EPSG, in MS SQL Server. How can I add this to MS SQL Server?
My end goal is to get this dataset into MS SQL Server, with the Geography Markup ...
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SQL Server Deadlock OPENXML insert
I am running into a deadlock issue when I call a stored procedure in Sql Server 2014 Enterprise Edition. An XML string is passed into the stored procedure and can be called many times in quick ...
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Why does sql server consider a function that extracts a value from an xml parameter non-deterministic?
I want to add a computed field that extracts a value from another xml column.
The function looks like this:
create or alter function extractValue(@val xml) returns varchar(14)
as
begin
return @val....
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does xml element exist, regardless of value?
EDIT: I demonstrated my ignorance by confusing attribute with element, I updated my question. Sorry. To clarify, I'm looking for the existence of the element code in:
<conditionmessage:code>...
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How to load a table using BCP
Context:
I created a dump of a sql table in XML (Including data and schema) using this command from the command prompt.
BCP "SELECT * FROM Database.Schema.TableName FOR XML AUTO, XMLSCHEMA" ...
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How extract cldr timezones from xml file to store in a DB table? [closed]
In our DB, I need each location to be associated with a "timezone".
These timezones are in https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/blob/release-36-1/common/supplemental/metaZones.xml
I want to make a ...
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XQuery in SQL Server to convert XML column data to relational data table
I previously asked a question about an error I was recieving. You don't really need it to understand this question but it's here for reference:
XML/SQL Server 2008 Error: XQuery...Cannot implicitly ...
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Spooling Oracle XML data results in 1 line and missing data?
I am trying to spool Oracle XML data to a file but the resulting file ends up with 1 line which is stops after a certain amount of characters so doesn't contain all of the data?
set colsep ,
set ...
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vertica/postgres copy text to binary column
Until now I used Oracle to store xml file in blob data type column.
Is there any option in Vertica to copy xml file into binary column?
I saw there is varbinary data type but, I haven't succeeded to ...
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Get one row for each value in xml column
I have a table, called product_variants, with one integer column and one xml column containing a set of foreign key values.
If I ran,
select product_id, options_xml from product_variants
This would ...
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Querying XML Nodes with SQL
I think I'm nearly there with this but have reached an impasse!
I've a relatively straightforward XML structure that I need to parse out as a SQL resultset but can't seem to get it to work.
Here is ...
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Postgresql query XMLTable with default namespace
I use PostgreSQL 12 to query XML data.
My data is as below
CREATE TABLE xmldata AS SELECT
xml $$
<ROWS xmlns="http://x.y.z">
<ROW id="1">
<COUNTRY_ID>AU</COUNTRY_ID>
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Xml index, slow count of rows
I am not getting index seek in the following scenario.
Instead of inserting <Number>xxx</Number> in xml column like in this post Why is the secondary selective index not used when the ...
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If XML child element value contains string return other child element value at same level
I have a database table named Warehouses that contains rows of data related to specific warehouses. One column in that table is named itemStats and contains XML data in the following format:
<...
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Extract Information from XML Document Attributes into PostgreSQL
I am fairly new to SQL, and very unfamiliar with XML. I want to extract the key data from the XML document below into PostgreSQL, but I am having difficulties. Basically, for every data series, I ...
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How to loop through all table rows and perform subquery using values of same row?
I have a table structured as follows:
| reference | valA | valB | xml |
1 NULL NULL <xml stuff>
3 NULL NULL <xml stuff>
4 NULL NULL ...
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ERROR: invalid XML content, when Select unnest(xpath(... on a text column
I have a text column named big_xml in my table which has the following value:
<?xml version=1.0 encoding=UTF-8?>
<dpid:DpidDatabase xmlns:dpid=http://ddex.net/xml/dpid/11 xmlns:xsi=http://...
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Search for values in xml data
I have a table of names:
Table A
John
Jim
Jason
and a table of xml strings:
Table B
Example 1
<Show Title="" ShowTitle="=False" ShowLine="=False" ShowDescription="=False" ...
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How to Load XML child nodes in to multiple tables
I would like to load the below XML into 2 tables
Table 1: Acct Table - it should have the ACCT_NUM and a Key to tie to the Table 2 below
Table 2: Should have all the Contacts (1 record per ...
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XQquery for specific attribute of all specific elements in XML
I am, looking for a query to get all attribute values "NetAmount" of Element "PRODUCT" from the following samle XML:
<ROOT>
<CATEGORY name="A">
<PRODUCT NetAmount="10.50"/>
<...
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XML Query Question
I'm trying to generate a SQL query to get the "DATE" values out of the following SQL XML:
I've tried something like this but I don't think I'm understanding the concepts.
select
xConfig.value('(/...
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Why is an empty XML node xml datatype not being recognized in this query?
My query seems to not recognize self-closing or empty nodes at all. Shouldn't the empty <td/> node return 'null'? Or an empty string. Even if I place an empty space in the node, it still is ...
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XQuery doesn't update XML data
I am trying to run the script to update an XML column:
UPDATE DataImpTable
SET serviceData.modify('replace value of (/SMObjInfo/CentralData/SMData/CentralSDItem/ControlData/text())[1] with "9876"')
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