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By: Madina

Madina — Wed, 12 Dec 2012 14:07:53 +0000

GREAT THANKS!!!

By: Shilpi Kapoor

Shilpi Kapoor — Wed, 12 Sep 2012 11:25:20 +0000

how to get XML like below:

urn:epc:id:sgtin:1249612083.107346.

urn:epc:id:sgtin:1249612083.107346.550006729 urn:epc:id:sgtin:1249612083.107346.550006730 urn:epc:id:sgtin:1249612083.107346.550006731 urn:epc:id:sgtin:1249612083.107346.550006732 urn:epc:id:sgtin:1249612083.107346.550006733 urn:epc:id:sgtin:1249612083.107346.550006734 urn:epc:id:sgtin:1249612083.107346.550006735 urn:epc:id:sgtin:1249612083.107346.550006736 urn:epc:id:sgtin:1249612083.107346.550006737 urn:epc:id:sgtin:1249612083.107346.550006738

By: Jesse

Jesse — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 15:28:30 +0000

Great post! Is there a way to mimic this output with SQL? Object Name Property Length of Title Right Padded with Spaces Length With Spaces Chart Color I have only been able to get it to look like this: Object Namenot NameObject NameObject Name

By: Pradeep K.

Pradeep K. — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 06:18:19 +0000

Hi Pinal Sir,
Ur RND is nice, but i cant understand how to execute it after creating XML link which shown above at last image.. so please tell me what is next procedure after creating XML link.. :)

Thanks and regards
Pradeep K

By: João Luiz

João Luiz — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 22:44:06 +0000

Hi, Dave.

I’m rewriting my question to (hopefully) include proper XML tags

I have a requirement such that there should be no self closing tags in an XML result I have to serve to another system.

If, for example, I do a query like this:…

SELECT ‘Fuit Shop’ AS ShopName
,” AS Nada
,(SELECT ‘Apple’ AS Fruits1
,’Pineapple’ AS Fruits2
,” AS Fruits3
,’Melon’ AS Fruits4
FOR XML PATH(‘Fruits’), TYPE)
FOR XML PATH(”), ROOT(‘SampleXML’)

… the result will be:

Fuit Shop

Apple
Pineapple

Melon

Note that while element Nada has a separate closing tag, Fuit3 is self-closing.

How could I modify that query to meet my requirement and get a result as follows?:

Fuit Shop

Apple
Pineapple

Melon

Thank you, very much.

By: João Luiz

João Luiz — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 22:38:05 +0000

Hi, Dave.

I have a requirement such that there should be no self closing tags in an XML result I have to serve to another system.

If, for example, I do a query like this:…

… the result will be:

Fuit Shop

Apple
Pineapple

Melon

Note that while element Nada has a separate closing tag, Fuit3 is self-closing.

How could I modify that query to meet my requirement and get a result as follows?:

Fuit Shop

Apple
Pineapple

Melon

Thank you, very much.

By: Manbahadur L

Manbahadur L — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 06:29:52 +0000

Hi Pinal Dave,
I have tried XML PATH functionality for convert my query output to xml data convertion. its working fine. I can able to create a xml files for my data. But i need one favor from you. if i open the xml file in notepad or some other editers, the data is coming in paragraph format. i need correct xml format.

if i open the xml file its showing correct format.

example:

my data is

Name Age Sex
Mano 29 M
Raji 23 F

after i convert my data to xml, it is coming like this

Mano 29 M and so on..

but i need

Mano
29
M
and
so
on…

like this.

is it possible? if you give solution it will be a great help to me.

thanks in advance.

Mano

By: K. Wallutt

K. Wallutt — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:45:40 +0000

Great – helped me a lot – thanks

By: aryan

aryan — Wed, 27 Jun 2012 16:12:55 +0000

Hey friends, this query is really appreciative once and its working fine but for example if a table consists of 30,000 records then this ” select * from test1 for Xml AUTO,elements,root(‘Sample’) ” query converts them ? please immediately respond

By: M

Wed, 13 Jun 2012 13:00:45 +0000

this helped me achieve the following out put

ABBEY WAY
WILLESBOROUGH
FRIDAY

ABBOTT WAY
TENTERDEN
TUESDAY

SQL QUERY used

select X.id as ‘@id’
, X.Street AS ‘street’
, X.district as ‘district’
, X.collectionday as ‘collectionday’

FROM [ABC-Collections].[dbo].[IMPORT_XML] X
for XML PATH(‘location’), root(‘addresses’)

Hope that helps someone

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Wed, 23 May 2012 10:56:39 +0000

select value,min(val) as val from table
group by value

By: Bikram Kumar Sahoo

Bikram Kumar Sahoo — Wed, 16 May 2012 05:33:15 +0000

hii,
i have one table where the datas are
id value
1 50
2 60
and another table having datas like
value val
50 20
50 30
60 100
60 120
But i want the result like
50 20
60 100

plz help me

By: Pat

Pat — Tue, 01 May 2012 15:09:18 +0000

I think this gives a better example of depth.
SELECT ( SELECT ‘White’ AS Color1,
(select ‘dark’ as shade1,’Light’ as shade2 for XML path (‘Blue’),TYPE ),
‘Blue’ AS Color2,
‘Black’ AS Color3,
‘Light’ AS ‘Color4/@Special’,
‘Green’ AS Color4,
‘Red’ AS Color5
FOR
XML PATH(‘Colors’),
TYPE
),
( SELECT ‘Apple’ AS Fruits1,
‘Pineapple’ AS Fruits2,
‘Grapes’ AS Fruits3,
‘Melon’ AS Fruits4
FOR
XML PATH(‘Fruits’),
TYPE
)
FOR XML PATH(”),
ROOT(‘SampleXML’)
GO

By: Joey

Joey — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 04:32:46 +0000

Try this:

SELECT(SELECT ‘White’ AS Color FOR XML PATH(”), TYPE),
(SELECT ‘Blue’ AS Color FOR XML PATH(”), TYPE),
(SELECT ‘Black’ AS Color FOR XML PATH(”), TYPE),
(SELECT ‘Light’ AS ‘Color/@special’, ‘Green’ AS Color FOR XML PATH(”), TYPE),
(SELECT ‘Sun’ AS ‘Color/@subtype’, ‘Red’ AS Color FOR XML PATH(”), TYPE)
FOR XML PATH(”), ROOT(‘Colors’)
GO

–Generated XML:
–
– White
– Blue
– Black
– Green
– Red
–

By: MaxT

MaxT — Fri, 13 Apr 2012 13:27:39 +0000

Will using this method properly encode any XML special characters?

By: Bhagyashree

Bhagyashree — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 07:33:47 +0000

Its really helpful. Thank you!!

By: Neha

Neha — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:48:14 +0000

Also, I need to mention the database used in SQL 2008.

By: Neha

Neha — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:47:08 +0000

Hi,
I need help on creating a stored procedure which can fetch the data from database and write the output to an xml file.

Kindly help. Thanks in advance!

By: sanjay

sanjay — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 16:31:20 +0000

Hello Pinal ,

I am using BCP command to create xml file on remote server.
on remote server xml is created successfully, but subnodes are getting brakes. please provide me soluation to resolve subnode brake problam.

Thanks
Sanjay

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By: henrry

henrry — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:34:32 +0000

how i can insert in the xml result on the top from a sql server 2008 query this ?

thanks

By: Sat

Sat — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 08:25:26 +0000

Pinal Bhai You are the Best.

Sat

By: Mariselvam

Mariselvam — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:22:52 +0000

HI Pinal,

I want to create a XML of this type.

Tags Email1,Email2 are dynamic. Also, NumberOfLeads will change for each listing.

Can you help with this one?

Thanks!
Mari

By: Sridhar

Sridhar — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 08:23:58 +0000

Hi All,

I want to write the below code without using the Xml path, type or root. i.e. want to rewrite code using pure sql statements using xml functionalities. Will inserting just UNION ALL and removing XML path, type and root work for me.
Thanks in advance

SELECT ( SELECT ‘White’ AS Color1,
‘Blue’ AS Color2,
‘Black’ AS Color3,
‘Light’ AS ‘Color4/@Special’,
‘Green’ AS Color4,
‘Red’ AS Color5
FOR
XML PATH(‘Colors’),
TYPE
),
( SELECT ‘Apple’ AS Fruits1,
‘Pineapple’ AS Fruits2,
‘Grapes’ AS Fruits3,
‘Melon’ AS Fruits4
FOR
XML PATH(‘Fruits’),
TYPE
)
FOR XML PATH(”),
ROOT(‘SampleXML’)
GO