August 27, 2010 at 9:50 am
Hey Gurus and Grand Masters 😎
I have xml stored in a column with data type = text. I need to update multiple substrings of data within that text column (ie update ‘<data>1</data>’ to ‘<data>Test</data>’, ‘<data>2</data>’ to ‘<data>Test2</data>’). In trying the Replace function, it returns this message: Argument data type text is invalid for argument 1 of replace function.
In light of this, I am using the updatetext function instead. Due to the column data type of text, this function requires a delete_lengthvalue in bytes. Right now I have string length, I am looking for the best way to calculate byte length. Is there a built-in function to do this? Multiplying by a factor seems to work in some cases but not all, I am still in the midst of testing this…
August 27, 2010 at 10:14 am
Change the text data type to XML. This is not only to match data type and data content. You'll also get rid of a deprecated data type.
Once this is done you can use XQuery to modify the xml data in your table. It'll be a lot easier (once you got used to it).
A good resource for XQuery is Jacob Sebastians blog.
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