Question

I’m trying to convert a procedure to use in SQL Azure. I first got an error on OPENXML saying it’s not supported on SQL Azure, then I find out it can be replaced with nodes.

But I’m not sure how to convert the WITH (Id BIGINT '.') part. I know WITH creates a subquery but what is the '.' doing here?

CREATE Procedure [dbo].[DocsR]
    @ids    xml     -- <Ids><Id>1</Id><Id>2</Id></Ids>
AS
BEGIN
    SET NOCOUNT ON;

    DECLARE @IdsXml xml 
    exec sp_xml_preparedocument @IdsXml OUTPUT, @Ids

    SELECT
        DoctId,
        DocNm
    FROM
        Docs
    WHERE
        --DocId IN (SELECT Id FROM OPENXML(@IdsXml, '/Ids/Id', 2) WITH (Id BIGINT '.'))
          DocId IN (SELECT Id FROM @IdsXml.nodes('/Ids/Id') WITH (Id BIGINT '.'))
END
GO

Error:

Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'with'. If this statement is a common 
table expression, an xmlnamespaces clause or a change tracking context clause, 
the previous statement must be terminated with a semicolon.

Answer 1

Try the following:

  SELECT
        DoctId,
        DocNm
    FROM
        Docs
    WHERE
          DocId IN (SELECT Id = node.value('.', 'INT') 
                      FROM @IdsXml.nodes('/Ids/Id') AS R(node))