Use a LIKE statement on SQL Server XML Datatype

Question

If you have a varchar field you can easily do SELECT * FROM TABLE WHERE ColumnA LIKE \'%Test%\' to see if that column contains a certain string.

How do

Answer 1

Another option is to search the XML as a string by converting it to a string and then using LIKE. However as a computed column can't be part of a WHERE clause you need to wrap it in another SELECT like this:

SELECT * FROM
    (SELECT *, CONVERT(varchar(MAX), [COLUMNA]) as [XMLDataString] FROM TABLE) x
WHERE [XMLDataString] like '%Test%'