XML query
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I have the following basic XML document:
<MatchKeys><fuzzyKeys>
<key key1="MatchKey_PostOut" key2="MatchKey_Name1" />
<key key1="MatchKey_Name1" key2="MatchKey_PhoneticStreet" key3="MatchKey_PhoneticCompanyName"/>
<key key1="MatchKey_PostOut" key2="MatchKey_PostIn" />
</fuzzyKeys>
</MatchKeys>
The data is stored in an XML SQL variable but now I would like to put it into a table so the data looks like this:
with cteMatchKeys (MatchKey_Group, MatchKey_ID, KeyColumn)as
(
select 1, 1, 'MatchKey_PostOut' union all
select 1, 2, 'MatchKey_Name1' union all
select 2, 1, 'MatchKey_Name1' union all
select 2, 2, 'MatchKey_PhoneticStreet' union all
select 2, 3, 'MatchKey_PhoneticCompanyName' union all
select 3, 1, 'MatchKey_PostOut' union all
select 3, 2, 'MatchKey_PostIn'
)
select * from cteMatchKeys
Any ideas?
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DECLARE @x XML ='<MatchKeys>
<fuzzyKeys>
<key key1="MatchKey_PostOut" key2="MatchKey_Name1" />
<key key1="MatchKey_Name1" key2="MatchKey_PhoneticStreet" key3="MatchKey_PhoneticCompanyName"/>
<key key1="MatchKey_PostOut" key2="MatchKey_PostIn" />
</fuzzyKeys>
</MatchKeys>';
SELECT DENSE_RANK() OVER(ORDER BY x1.r1) AS MatchKey_Group,
ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY x1.r1 ORDER BY x2.r2) AS MatchKey_ID,
x2.r2.value('.','VARCHAR(30)') AS KeyColumn
FROM @x.nodes('/MatchKeys/fuzzyKeys/key') AS x1(r1)
CROSS APPLY x1.r1.nodes('@*') AS x2(r2);
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Well, looks like Mark beat me to it. Anyhow, this is kind of (I think) the same thing.
DECLARE @xmlData XML
SET @xmlData = ('
<MatchKeys>
<fuzzyKeys>
<key key1="1" key2="1" key3="MatchKey_PostOut" />
</fuzzyKeys>
<fuzzyKeys>
<key key1="1" key2="2" key3="MatchKey_Name1" />
</fuzzyKeys>
<fuzzyKeys>
<key key1="2" key2="1" key3="MatchKey_Name1" />
</fuzzyKeys>
<fuzzyKeys>
<key key1="2" key2="2" key3="MatchKey_PhoneticStreet" />
</fuzzyKeys>
<fuzzyKeys>
<key key1="2" key2="3" key3="MatchKey_PhoneticCompanyName" />
</fuzzyKeys>
<fuzzyKeys>
<key key1="3" key2="1" key3="MatchKey_PostOut" />
</fuzzyKeys>
<fuzzyKeys>
<key key1="3" key2="2" key3="MatchKey_PostIn" />
</fuzzyKeys>
</MatchKeys>
')
SELECT
x.ref.value('@key1[1]', 'int') AS MatchKey_Group,
x.ref.value('@key2[1]', 'int') AS MatchKey_ID,
x.ref.value('@key3[1]', 'varchar(50)') AS KeyColumn
FROM @xmlData.nodes('/MatchKeys/fuzzyKeys/key') AS x( ref )
Mark, what is the purpose of the DENSE_RANK(), ROW_NUMBER(), and the CROSS APPLY? This is the fist time I've messed with XML, so it may be something simple.
Greg
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Mark, what is the purpose of the DENSE_RANK(), ROW_NUMBER(), and the CROSS APPLY? This is the fist time I've messed with XML, so it may be something simple.
Okay, I see now. Abu does not have the ID columns in the XML, so you are creating them?
Abu, I think you can ignore my previous post.
Greg
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Thanks guys. Much appreciated!
Although I find Greg's solution easier to understand which makes me wonder, should I re-format my XML?!
BTW, I've no idea how Mark's solution works lol, I'm going to have spend some time to work it out.
Once again, thanks for your help!
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It takes a minimal capacity for rational thought to see that the corporate 'free press' is a structurally irrational and biased, and extremely violent, system of elite propaganda.
David Edwards - Media lens[/url]Society has varying and conflicting interests; what is called objectivity is the disguise of one of these interests - that of neutrality. But neutrality is a fiction in an unneutral world. There are victims, there are executioners, and there are bystanders... and the 'objectivity' of the bystander calls for inaction while other heads fall.
Howard Zinn -
Maybe there's a middlin' easy alternative:
DECLARE @xmlData XML ='<MatchKeys>
<fuzzyKeys>
<key key1="MatchKey_PostOut" key2="MatchKey_Name1" />
<key key1="MatchKey_Name1" key2="MatchKey_PhoneticStreet" key3="MatchKey_PhoneticCompanyName"/>
<key key1="MatchKey_PostOut" key2="MatchKey_PostIn" />
</fuzzyKeys>
</MatchKeys>';
;WITH XML_Unveiled AS (
SELECT MatchKey_Group=ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY (SELECT NULL)),
x.ref.value('@key1[1]', 'varchar(50)') AS Key1,
x.ref.value('@key2[1]', 'varchar(50)') AS Key2,
x.ref.value('@key3[1]', 'varchar(50)') AS Key3
FROM @xmlData.nodes('/MatchKeys/fuzzyKeys/key') AS x( ref ))
SELECT MatchKey_Group, MatchKey_ID, KeyColumn
FROM XML_Unveiled
CROSS APPLY (
VALUES (1, Key1),(2,Key2),(3,Key3)) a (MatchKey_ID, KeyColumn)
WHERE KeyColumn IS NOT NULL
ORDER BY MatchKey_Group, MatchKey_ID
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