Table is named as MasterTable
Columns
ID
type BIGINT
,
Name
type VARCHAR(200)
(stores xml
type data for some reasons)
Name
contains data structured as
<en-US>SomeEnglishText</en-US><it-IT>SomeItalicText</it-IT>
When I need to Update
the Master
Table then at that time I Need to cast the Varchar
to xml
then conditionally update / replace the value
part of particular tag i.e either en-US / it-IT
.
Also there are chances that No data/tags are there in Name
column so I think at the time of Inserting data it would Insert
empty tag elements in the table like <en-US></en-US><it-IT></it-IT>
, so the update
query must handle empty value in tag elements namely en-US/it-IT
.
I am trying to do it like following update query.
DECLARE @Str VARCHAR(200)
SET @Str = 'Test Text'
UPDATE [MasterTable]
SET [Name] = cast([MasterTable].[Name] as xml).modify('replace value of (en-US/text())[1] with sql:variable("@Str")')
WHERE [ID]=18
I getting following error when running the query
Illegal use of xml data type method 'modify'. A non-mutator method is expected in this context.
You can not assign from a xml.modify. Modify works on the variable/column directly. You can also not use modify on a cast.
You can extract the name to a xml variable, modify the xml and then put it back to the table.
declare @str varchar(200) = 'Test'
declare @xml xml
select @xml = cast(Name as xml)
from MasterTable
where ID = 18
set @xml.modify('replace value of (en-US/text())[1] with sql:variable("@Str")')
update MasterTable
set Name = cast(@xml as varchar(200))
where ID = 18
If you need this to work over more than one row at a time you can use a table variable with columns id
and name
where data type for name is xml
instead of the @xml
variable.
declare @str varchar(200) = 'Test Text'
declare @T table (ID int, Name xml)
insert into @T
select ID, cast(Name as xml)
from MasterTable
where Name is not null
update @T
set Name.modify('replace value of (en-US/text())[1] with sql:variable("@Str")')
update MasterTable
set Name = cast(T.Name as varchar(200))
from @T as T
where MasterTable.ID = T.ID
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