What your XML looks like?
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>I am working with the SQL tables that has XML data stored in a field defined as varchar. I am trying to extract specific element from the XML and this is what I have so far:
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>select XMLInString, CAST(XMLInString as XML),
> CAST(XMLInString as XML).query('/pbXML/Shipment/BillNr[1]')
>from ShipmentPlanning
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>This almost works. 3rd field in the above query returns: BillNr 9999 /BillNr
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>What I am looking for is only the 9999 part to be returned.
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>Thank you,
>daniel
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