Question

I’m trying to return an XML from a table which holds a Geography type.
SQL query:

SELECT *
From Events
ORDER BY HydrantId ASC
FOR XML RAW ('Event'), ROOT ('Events'), ELEMENTS XSINIL;

I’m getting the following error:

FOR XML does not support CLR types -   
cast CLR types explicitly into one of the supported types in FOR XML queries.  

How can I cast this Geography column to something which is readable?
Thanks.

Answer 1

SELECT Column1, Column2, Column3, cast(GeographyColumn as varchar(max))
From Events
ORDER BY HydrantId ASC
FOR XML RAW ('Event'), ROOT ('Events'), ELEMENTS XSINIL;

The value in GeographyColumn will be in the POINT (-77.010996 38.890358) format.