Dear brothers in Perl, I have now tried to tackle this problem for quite a while by myself without any success - time to request some of your wisdom!

I am on a Windows box, trying to access through ODBC / Perl DBI/DBD a database that has a table containing a column having the "XML" data type, and I just can't figure out a way to access this data in a bare select query: as soon as my query includes the XML-typed column, the query does not return any row.

The XML-typed column's name is "XmlResults".

The funny thing is 2) returns the expected rows perfectly well when I run the query through my database querying IDE (SqlDbx), connecting to SQL Server the exact same way (using the same ODBC DSN).

Note that no specific error is thrown - it's just that I get 0 row returned.

I have tried using other accessors than the CONVERT statement, XQuery for example, like

SELECT XmlResults.value('/whatever[1]','varchar(50)'), etc.

but I get the same behaviour: works from the IDE, but not from my Perl code :(

My code is quite standard:

my $sth = $dbh->prepare($sql);
my @row = $sth->fetchrow_array;

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I have tried using $sth->fetchall_arrayref rather than $sth->fetchrow_array but it made no difference.

I have the latest CPAN modules installed.

What would you do to resolve my issue? Any hint/advice on how to analyse the issue further?

Thanks!

In reply to [Windows / SQL Server / ODBC / DBI / DBD] How to access XML data type columns by gaggio

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