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magmo
Aged Yak Warrior
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 Posted - 2010-04-08 : 14:54:57
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| HiI use this in a stored procedure to return a value from a xml field..ISNULL(OrderRow.FormFields.query('data(/root/FirstName)'),'') As FirstNameBut I need to convert it to varchar, how do I do that?UPDATE: No need to answer, I got it working now |
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SwePeso
Patron Saint of Lost Yaks
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Posted - 2010-04-08 : 15:30:10
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1) You can use CAST2) You can use VALUE instead of QUERY method3) Try use COALESCE instead of ISNULL
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convert xml value