Getting multiple records from xml column with value() in SQL Server

Question

This SQL only returns the first Activity element. How do I select them all? If I remove the [1] in the query I get an error that \"value() requires a singleton\".

Answer 1

Thanks Ed, but I found an easier version:

SELECT T.C.value('.', 'varchar(100)') as activity
FROM @myDoc.nodes('(/Root/Activities/Activity)') as T(C)

Though from your "unnecessarily complex" example it seems worryingly simple..