MSCEWI4041

XML data type methods are not supported in Snowflake.

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Severity

Medium

Description

This EWI is added for the following XML data type methods that are not supported in Snowflake SQL:

• Value

• Query

• Exist

• Modify

• Nodes

Code Example

Input Code:

 SELECT CatalogDescription.query('SomeXMLString') as Result
 FROM Production.ProductModel

Output Code:

SELECT
-- ** MSC-ERROR - MSCEWI4041 - XML TYPE METHOD query IS NOT SUPPORTED IN SNOWFLAKE**
--       CatalogDescription.query('SomeXMLString')
as Result
FROM Production.ProductModel;

Recommendations

• Consider using UDFs to emulate the behavior of the source code

• You can check this documentation and review some possible approaches to work with XML datatypes in Snowflake.

• If you need more support, you can email us at [email protected]