I have the following XML in a XML column in SQL Server.
<qualifiers>
<qualifier>
<key>111</key>
<message>a match was not found</message>
</qualifier>
<qualifier>
<key>222</key>
<message>a match was found</message>
</qualifier>
<qualifier>
<key>333</key>
<message>error</message>
</qualifier>
</qualifiers>
How can I write TSQL to return all the values in qualifiers/qualifier/message in a comma delimited string? My goal is to have the query return the values from the XML in a single column for each row.
The results should look like this:
"a match was not found, a match was found, error"
SQLFiddle for the same: Solution as per @xQbert suggested
create table Temp (col1 xml)
go
insert into Temp (col1)
values('<qualifiers>
<qualifier>
<key>111</key>
<message>a match was not found</message>
</qualifier>
<qualifier>
<key>222</key>
<message>a match was found</message>
</qualifier>
<qualifier>
<key>333</key>
<message>error</message>
</qualifier>
</qualifiers>')
go
SELECT
STUFF((SELECT
',' + fd.v.value('(.)[1]', 'varchar(50)')
FROM
Temp
CROSS APPLY
col1.nodes('/qualifiers/qualifier/message') AS fd(v)
FOR XML PATH('')
), 1, 1, '')