Question

I have the following table in my database:

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[XmlData](     [id] [int] IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL,     [xmldata] [xml] NOT NULL, CONSTRAINT [PK_XmlData] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED  (     [id] ASC )WITH (PAD_INDEX  = OFF, STATISTICS_NORECOMPUTE  = OFF, IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF, ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS  = ON, ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS  = ON) ON [PRIMARY] ) ON [PRIMARY] 

And when I run the following INSERT and SELECT statements I can see that my CDATA sections are being stripped somewhere along the line.

INSERT      INTO          [XmlCdataTest].[dbo].[XmlData] ([xmldata])     VALUES         ('<doc><control><value><![CDATA[10 < 11]]></value></control></doc>') GO  SELECT [xmldata] FROM XmlData GO 

Is this some sort of bug in SQL 2005 or is there some option I can use to tell SQL Server to not strip these cdata sections from my xml data?

Answer 1

It appears that there is no way around this.