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    <p>Your XQuery should be:</p> <pre><code>SELECT PersonID, Properties.value('(/PropertyList/Property[@Name="Class"])[1]','NVARCHAR(50)') FROM dbo.Person </code></pre> <p>Does that help??</p> <p><em>Update:</em> to make it clearer for others - I've added parenthesis around the <code>/PropertyList/Property[@Name="Class"]</code> expression, so that this will evaluate to potentially a list of values, and then the <code>[1]</code> after the parenthesis will select the first (and most often only) value (as a singleton) of that list so it can be converted to a <code>NVARCHAR(50)</code> string.</p> <pre><code>value('(/PropertyList/Property[@Name="Class"])[1]','NVARCHAR(50)') ! ! </code></pre> <p>is <strong>NOT</strong> the same as </p> <pre><code>value('/PropertyList/Property[@Name="Class"][1]','NVARCHAR(50)') </code></pre> <p><strong>Update 2:</strong> if you want to create a view - sure, no reason not to! ;-)</p> <p>You could definitely create something like:</p> <pre><code>CREATE VIEW dbo.YourViewName AS SELECT PersonID, PersonType, Title, ForeName, Surname, Company, Properties.value('(/PropertyList/Property[@Name="Class"])[1]','NVARCHAR(50)') AS 'Class', Properties.value('(/PropertyList/Property[@Name="CarRegistration"])[1]','NVARCHAR(50)') AS 'CarRegistration', Properties.value('(/PropertyList/Property[@Name="MedicalNotes"])[1]','NVARCHAR(50)') AS 'MedicalNotes' </code></pre> <p>from your table and "break up" the XML into columns on your view. Is that what you're looking for??</p>
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    1. COIsn't that exactly what they've already tried?
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    2. CO@Ash Burlaczenko: **NO!!** I added parenthesis to the XQuery expression (which are essential in this case!) Without the parenthesis (original post), it doesn't work and gives an error - with my parenthesis, it works - check closely!!
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    3. CO@marc_s: can you explain why the parens should make a difference? Sure, in theory, if a Properties column value could be an XML document fragment with multiple /PropertyList elements, then the parens would mean the difference between "the first Property named Class" and "the first Property named Class of each PropertyList". But assuming each Properties column value has only one /PropertyList element, there's no difference, right? In fact in his example, there's only one Property named "Class" so the `[1]` shouldn't make a difference at all.
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