Working with the SQL Server XML data type

Question

I\'ve got a table which has a XML field. The typical XML it contains is;

  
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Answer 1

What i'm trying to achieve is a way of saying, across all xml data in the whole table... give me all of the xmlElements where the title is X.

Not sure if I totally understood your question here - or are you looking for this? You would grab all the /things/Fruit elements a "nodes" and cross join them against your "base data" in the myTable - the result would be one row per XML element in your XML data field:

select 
   omID,
   T.Fruit.query('.')
from 
   dbo.myTable
cross apply
   omText.nodes('/things/Fruit') as T(Fruit)
where 
   T.Fruit.value('(title)[1]', 'varchar(50)') = 'X'

Or give me a count of all items that use an imageId of 55.

select 
   count(*)
from 
   dbo.myTable
cross apply
   omText.nodes('/things/Fruit') as T(Fruit)
where 
   T.Fruit.value('(imageId)[1]', 'int') = 55

Is that what you're looking for?

Marc