Service Broker — how to extract the rows from the XML message?

Question

Say I have the following situation (for demonstration). The simple table content is converted to an XML value and sent via Service Broker to another SQL server where the res

Answer 1

And other option (i would prefer Remus Rusanu example though.. If a lots of columns and table structures are the same, this helps get lazy):

declare @x xml = (SELECT * FROM tab FOR XML RAW, root('tab'), TYPE); 

Declare @docHandle int  
EXEC sp_xml_preparedocument @docHandle OUTPUT, @x

Select *
FROM OPENXML(@docHandle, 'tab//', 1) 
With dbo.Tab

EXEC sp_xml_removedocument @docHandle