Update XML stored in a XML column in SQL Server

Question

I have a sample table in SQL Server 2012. I am running some queries against but the .modify() XQuery method is executing but not updating.

Here is the t

Answer 1

Since there is a XML namespace (xmlns:dev="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema") in your XML document, you must inlcude that in your UPDATE statement!

Try this:

;WITH XMLNAMESPACES(DEFAULT 'http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema')
UPDATE XmlTable
SET XmlDocument.modify('replace value of (/Doc/@Settings)[1] with "NewTest"')
WHERE XmlId = 1