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Asked: 2026-06-15T21:29:01+00:00

I’m looking for a way to unpivot xml node attributes, where the node name/attribute

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I’m looking for a way to unpivot xml node attributes, where the node name/attribute names are unknown, in TSQL

DECLARE @Raw XML = '<contact id=1 firstname="liz" lastname="simple" email="liz@sample.com"/>'

I need results that look like:

id           1
firstname    liz
lastname     simple
email        liz@sample.com
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  1. Editorial Team

    Query

    DECLARE @Raw XML = '<contact id="1"
                     firstname="liz"
                     lastname="simple"
                     email="liz@sample.com"/>'
select n.n.value('local-name(.)', 'nvarchar(max)') name,
       n.n.value('.', 'nvarchar(max)') value
  from @raw.nodes('/*/@*') n(n)

    Result

    name        value
----------- ----------------
id          1
firstname   liz
lastname    simple
email       liz@sample.com
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