Question

I’m looking for an XQuery that will take:

<root>
    <entity>
        <entityid>1</entityid>
        <sometext>this is some text</sometext>
    </entity>
    <entity>
        <entityid>1</entityid>
        <sometext>this is some more text</sometext>
    </entity>
</root>

And produce a recordset like:

Entityid    sometext
1           this is some textthis is some more text

Essentially, combining the values in the ‘sometext’ nodes while grouping by the entityid. I figured I might be able to accomplish this with loops, but wasn’t sure if there was a better way, possibly with a join/group by

Answer 1

declare @XML xml =
'<root>
    <entity>
        <entityid>1</entityid>
        <sometext>this is some text</sometext>
    </entity>
    <entity>
        <entityid>1</entityid>
        <sometext>this is some more text</sometext>
    </entity>
    <entity>
        <entityid>2</entityid>
        <sometext>Another entity</sometext>
    </entity>
</root>';

select T.entityid,
       @XML.query('/root/entity[entityid = sql:column("T.entityid")]/sometext').value('.', 'nvarchar(max)') as sometext
from (
     select distinct T.N.value('entityid[1]', 'int') as entityid
     from @XML.nodes('/root/entity') as T(N)
     ) as T;

Result:

entityid    sometext
----------- -----------------------------------------
1           this is some textthis is some more text
2           Another entity