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The And block of Field3 is being ignored. It doesn't matter if the text matches or not. What's wrong here? 

<Where>
  <And>
    <Eq>
      <FieldRef Name='Field1' />
      <Value Type='Boolean'>1</Value>
    </Eq>
    <Eq>
      <FieldRef Name='Field2' />
      <Value Type='Text'>Something</Value>
    </Eq>
  </And>
  <And>
    <Contains>
      <FieldRef Name='Field3' />
      <Value Type='Text'>Testing</Value>
    </Contains>
  </And>
</Where>
<OrderBy>
  <FieldRef Name='Field8' Ascending='True' />
</OrderBy>

Thanks!

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<Query>
    <Where>
        <And>
            <Eq>
                <FieldRef Name="ID" /><Value Type="Counter">1</Value>
            </Eq>
            <And>
                <Eq>
                    <FieldRef Name="ContentType" /><Value Type="Computed">test</Value>
                </Eq>
                <Eq>
                    <FieldRef Name="Title" /><Value Type="Text">aaa</Value>
                </Eq>
            </And>
        </And>
    </Where>
</Query>

It should be like this. Use U2U caml builder.

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I've had it work like this, nesting the Ands at the beginning

<Where>
  <And><And>
    <Eq>
      <FieldRef Name='Field1' />
      <Value Type='Boolean'>1</Value>
    </Eq>
    <Eq>
      <FieldRef Name='Field2' />
      <Value Type='Text'>Something</Value>
    </Eq>
  </And>
    <Contains>
      <FieldRef Name='Field3' />
      <Value Type='Text'>Testing</Value>
    </Contains>
  </And>
</Where>
<OrderBy>
  <FieldRef Name='Field8' Ascending='True' />
</OrderBy>
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  • 1
    Combining operators in CAML is something of a black art and something I find impossible to describe, even after writing (horrible) code that generates CAML I still can't describe effectively how the nesting works, but yes, it involves nesting all but the last clause for every second degree.
    – James Love
    Dec 27, 2011 at 19:49
  • Black art is an understatement. Yes, It took me awhile to realize that they go at the beginning of the query.
    – David King
    Dec 27, 2011 at 20:20
  • If I was ever to make a query like this I would test and log with linq first, the dangers of making a query like this extremely slow are high. This query should be okay, it all depends on the amount of data the contains is sifting through, 1 contains is okay, 2 is iffy and 3+ you really need to balance.
    – Hugh Wood
    Aug 28, 2012 at 9:09
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You can also use Camlex.NET. It takes care of the nesting when you use the Camlex.Query().WhereAll(expressions).ToString() method.

Camlex.NET on Codeplex

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