SQL get specific element Count in XML

 Consider this XML

Suppose you want to get count of student ids. You can use SQL to get the count as follows.

declare @xml XML;

set @xml ='<Students>

    <Student>

        <Id>001</Id>

        <Fname>Leesa</Fname>

        <Sname>Humpry</Sname>

    </Student>

    <Student>

        <Id>002</Id>

        <Fname>Clara</FName>

        <Sname>Margrette</Sname>

    </Student>

  </Students>';

select @xml.value('count(/Students/Student/Id)', 'INT') AS 'Count'

Cheers

Samitha