Thoughts from a C# Developer /site.aspx/Tags/SQLServer/RSS en http://www.kennydust.com/Content/icons/flame.png /site.aspx/Tags/SQLServer/RSS 64 64 kenny more references.. to grab specific values based on an attribute and an inner xml node <properties><item key="IsFeatured"><value>1</value></item></properties> where XmlProperties.value('(/properties/item[@key = "IsFeatured"]/value)[1]', 'int' ) = 1 http://www.kennydust.com/site.aspx/Blog/Dancing-around-with-XQuery-and-SQL-Server-Part-1#c-201011101124202 http://www.kennydust.com/site.aspx/Blog/Dancing-around-with-XQuery-and-SQL-Server-Part-1#c-201011101124202 Wed, 10 Nov 2010 23:24:20 GMT kenny for reference. select * from User WHERE [properties].exist('/properties/property[@key = "Session"]') = 'xxxxxx'; http://www.kennydust.com/site.aspx/Blog/Dancing-around-with-XQuery-and-SQL-Server-Part-1#c-201011100613317 http://www.kennydust.com/site.aspx/Blog/Dancing-around-with-XQuery-and-SQL-Server-Part-1#c-201011100613317 Wed, 10 Nov 2010 06:13:31 GMT