Question

I have the following simple XML fragment shown below. What would the T-SQL look like if I wanted to just extract the ‘EntityFriendlyName’ attribute?

<SimpleRuleValue xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
    <EntityId>0</EntityId>
    <EntityFriendlyName>ALine</EntityFriendlyName>
</SimpleRuleValue>

Answer 1

It would be something like this:

SELECT CAST(X.SomeXML AS XML).value('(SimpleRuleValue/EntityFriendlyName)[1]','nvarchar(1000)') AS EntityFriendlyName
FROM XmlSource X

Edit:
A little more information.