Returning multiple rows from querying XML column in SQL Server 2008

Question

I have a table RDCAlerts with the following data in a column of type XML called AliasesValue:

Answer 1

You need to use the CROSS APPLY statement along with the .nodes() function to get multiple rows returned.

select 
    a.alias.value('(aliasType/text())[1]', 'varchar(20)') as 'aliasType', 
    a.alias.value('(aliasName/text())[1]', 'varchar(20)') as 'aliasName' 
from 
    RDCAlerts r
    cross apply r.AliasesValue.nodes('/aliases/alias') a(alias)