Having a nvarchar column containing xml. Is there an easy way to find those rows where:
CONVERT(xml, XML, 2)
does not work? Thanks.
Having a nvarchar column containing xml. Is there an easy way to find those
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Having a nvarchar column containing xml. Is there an easy way to find those rows where:
CONVERT(xml, XML, 2)
does not work? Thanks.
What would do the job is TRY_CONVERT, but that’s new in SQL 2012.
So, pre 2012, the only other way I can think of is to create a SQLCLR function to try parsing the value into a XML blob.