Ответ 1
Как указал Антонио, я бы использовал XQuery вместо Openxml. Я догадался об исходном xml и предоставил код для ваших двух запросов:
/* Please note I have used different cases than you to follow a standard (first letter capitialised for elements, lowercase for attributes.
As xml is case sensitive, you may need to change the below code to suit the case of your data */
/* Bring your xml into an xml variable */
DECLARE @xml xml = '
<Records>
<Record category="category1" editor="editor1" entered="2015-01-01" subcategory="subcategory1" uid="100001" updated="updated1">
<Person ssn="ssn1" e-i="ei1">
<Title>Title1</Title>
<Position>Position1</Position>
<Names>
<First_name>FirstName1</First_name>
<Last_name>LastName1</Last_name>
<Aliases>
<Alias>test1</Alias>
<Alias>test2</Alias>
<Alias>test3</Alias>
</Aliases>
</Names>
</Person>
</Record>
<Record category="category2" editor="editor2" entered="2015-01-02" subcategory="subcategory2" uid="100002" updated="updated2">
<Person ssn="ssn2" e-i="ei2">
<Title>Title2</Title>
<Position>Position2</Position>
<Names>
<First_name>FirstName2</First_name>
<Last_name>LastName2</Last_name>
<Aliases>
<Alias>test4</Alias>
<Alias>test5</Alias>
</Aliases>
</Names>
</Person>
</Record>
</Records>'
/* The unary relationship of 1 element/attribute type per record in xpath */
SELECT T.rows.value('@category[1]', '[varchar](100)') AS Category
,T.rows.value('@editor[1]', '[varchar](100)') AS Editor
,T.rows.value('@entered[1]', '[Datetime]') AS Entered
,T.rows.value('@subcategory[1]', '[varchar](100)') AS Subcategory
,T.rows.value('@uid[1]', '[bigint]') AS [UID]
,T.rows.value('@updated[1]', '[varchar](100)') AS Updated
,T.rows.value('(Person/Names/First_name)[1]', '[varchar](100)') AS First_Name
,T.rows.value('(Person/Names/Last_name)[1]', '[varchar](100)') AS Last_Name
,T.rows.value('(Person/@ssn)[1]', '[varchar](100)') AS SSN
,T.rows.value('(Person/@e-i)[1]', '[varchar](100)') AS ei
,T.rows.value('(Person/Title)[1]', '[varchar](100)') AS Title
,T.rows.value('(Person/Position)[1]', '[varchar](100)') AS Position
FROM @xml.nodes('/Records/Record') T(rows)
/* Record to alias, one-to-many mapping */
SELECT T.rows.value('../../../../@category[1]', '[varchar](100)') AS Category
,T.rows.value('.', '[varchar](100)') AS Alias
FROM @xml.nodes('/Records/Record/Person/Names/Aliases/Alias') T(rows)