DECLARE @Items XML SET @Items = ' <bookstore><book category="COOKING"> <title lang="en">Everyday Italian2</title> <author>Giada De Laurentiis</author> <year>2005</year> <price>30.00</price></book><book category="CHILDREN"> <title lang="en">Harry Potter</title> <author>J K. Rowling</author> <year>2005</year> <price>29.99</price></book><book category="WEB"> <title lang="en">XQuery Kick Start</title> <author>James McGovern</author> <author>Per Bothner</author> <author>Kurt Cagle</author> <author>James Linn</author> <author>Vaidyanathan Nagarajan</author> <year>2003</year> <price>49.99</price></book><book category="WEB"> <title lang="zh">Learning XML</title> <author>Erik T. Ray</author> <year>2003</year> <price>39.95</price></book></bookstore> ' DECLARE @tb TABLE ( id INT IDENTITY( 1 , 1) PRIMARY KEY ,title NVARCHAR( 100) ,author NVARCHAR( 100) , YEAR INT ,price DECIMAL( 10 , 3) ) DECLARE @idoc INT EXEC sp_xml_preparedocument @idoc OUTPUT, @Items INSERT INTO @tb SELECT * FROM OPENXML( @idoc , ' //book ' , 2) WITH ( title NVARCHAR( 100) ,author NVARCHAR( 100) , YEAR INT ,price DECIMAL( 10 , 3) ) SELECT * FROM @tb