Example: Finding domain owners using SQL

You can use SQL to find the owners of all domains in a geodatabase by querying the tables GDB_ItemTypes and GDB_Items (or GDB_Items_vw view in Oracle).

The following examples show how to extract a value from a specific XML document using an XPath expression to find the owners of all domains in a specific geodatabase.

Be sure to connect to the correct database before executing this query.

--SQL Server
SELECT items.Name AS "Domain Name",
 items.Definition.value('(/*/Owner)[1]','nvarchar(max)') AS "Owner"
FROM dbo.GDB_ITEMS AS items INNER JOIN dbo.GDB_ITEMTYPES AS itemtypes
ON items.Type = itemtypes.UUID
WHERE itemtypes.Name IN ('Coded Value Domain', 'Range Domain')

--PostgreSQL
SELECT items.name AS "Domain Name",
 (xpath('//Owner/text()', definition))[1]::text as "Owner"
FROM sde.gdb_items AS items INNER JOIN sde.gdb_itemtypes AS itemtypes
ON items.type = itemtypes.uuid
WHERE itemtypes.name IN ('Coded Value Domain', 'Range Domain');

--Oracle
SELECT	items.name AS domain_name, 
	EXTRACTVALUE(xmltype(items.definition), '*/Owner') Owner,
	itemtypes.Name AS domain_type
FROM sde.gdb_items_vw items INNER JOIN sde.gdb_itemtypes itemtypes
ON items.Type = itemtypes.UUID
WHERE itemtypes.Name IN ('Coded Value Domain', 'Range Domain');