retrieving XML data from table

Hi,
I have a table with two field one of them is an identity field as record ID
and another is a ntext field named: xData
XData field contain an xml data like below:
<root>
<ta Name="bill" Job="eng"/>
<ta Name="john" Job="Mng"/>
<ta Name="Tom" Job="Sup"/>
</root>
And in the next record:
………
I can retrieve xml data from xData field for each record with openxml () to
a temptable .
Also I can update this table with SQL Statement like Delete,Update and inser
t.
Now after updating temptable, I want update xData filed with updated data
(as a xml format ).
Unfortunately I can not return data with XML format from temptable.
Please tell me how can I do that.I assume you are using SQL Server 2000 (it would be much easier in SQL
Server 2005 where you can use the XML datatype and XQuery/XML-DML).
I assume that you would like to use FOR XML to reconstruct the XML and
reinsert it into the ntext field. You can do so, but you would need to write
client-code that retrieves the XML from the server and then gives it back
into the server. That code can then be called from within the SQL Server
using the sp_OA stored procs.
Also note that you will run into issues with your OpenXML approach below if
the data will be larger than 8kBytes, unless you are using some other
workaround of the limitation of SQL Server 2000 that you cannot have
variables of type ntext (note that SQL Server 2005 is better again).
Best regards
Michael
"Mehdi" <Mehdi@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
> I have a table with two field one of them is an identity field as record
> ID
> and another is a ntext field named: xData
> XData field contain an xml data like below:
> <root>
> <ta Name="bill" Job="eng"/>
> <ta Name="john" Job="Mng"/>
> <ta Name="Tom" Job="Sup"/>
> </root>
> And in the next record:
> ...
> I can retrieve xml data from xData field for each record with openxml ()
> to
> a temptable .
> Also I can update this table with SQL Statement like Delete,Update and
> insert.
> Now after updating temptable, I want update xData filed with updated data
> (as a xml format ).
> Unfortunately I can not return data with XML format from temptable.
> Please tell me how can I do that.
>