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By: mahesh MS

mahesh MS — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 11:33:35 +0000

Correct Answer is 4.

4. SELECT Price [@Price], ProductName AS [*]
FROM CurrentProducts
FOR XML PATH(‘Product’), ROOT(‘ProductExport’)

ROOT(‘ProductExport’) will add “ProductExport” root tag and FOR XML PATH(‘Product’) will replace “Row” tag with “Product” for each row.

@Price will be added as attribute and ProductName value will placed directly in “Product” tag.

Regards
Mahesh

From India.

By: Azhar Iqbal

Azhar Iqbal — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 05:44:04 +0000

Option 4 is Correct.
Country
Pakistan

By: pinaldave

pinaldave — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 07:10:23 +0000

A.) 4. SELECT Price [@Price], ProductName AS [*] FROM CurrentProducts FOR XML PATH(‘Product’), ROOT(‘ProductExport’)

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By: Rajesh Mohanrangan

Rajesh Mohanrangan — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 11:13:59 +0000

Correct Answer is # 4.

4. SELECT Price [@Price], ProductName AS [*]
FROM CurrentProducts
FOR XML PATH(‘Product’), ROOT(‘ProductExport’)

Regards
Rajesh
From india

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 08:00:04 +0000

Option 4

4.SELECT Price [@Price], ProductName AS [*]
FROM CurrentProducts
FOR XML PATH(‘Product’), ROOT(‘ProductExport’)

Country:India

By: Sreejith Vijayan

Sreejith Vijayan — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 07:17:13 +0000

Correct answer is #4.
SELECT Price [@Price], ProductName AS [*]
FROM CurrentProducts
FOR XML PATH(‘Product’), ROOT(‘ProductExport’)

Sreejith Vijayan
Kerala
India

By: Nakul Vachhrajani

Nakul Vachhrajani — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 05:06:11 +0000

Correct answer is #4.
Reasons are very well explained in the article.

Country of residence: India

By: Pankaj

Pankaj — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 04:41:11 +0000

Correct Option is : 4

As per requirement Root element ProductExport and have to set attribute product price on product element.

Option 4 is the only answer to get it.

Thanks,

By: sravan

sravan — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 02:57:17 +0000

the correct option is 4

I’m from INDIA

By: Deb

Deb — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 00:28:50 +0000

The answer is # 4.

SELECT Price [@Price], ProductName AS [*]
FROM CurrentProducts
FOR XML PATH(‘Product’), ROOT(‘ProductExport’)

The desired output is

Product1
Product2
Product3
Product4

so you need

[@Price] to get price to show up as an attribute
For the tag to appear as “Product” and not row you need the Path(‘Product’)
For the root level tag to read “ProductExport” you need ROOT(‘ProductExport’)

#4 is the only one that has all these pieces that will get your xml to appear as you requested

Deb -USA

By: dilipkumarjena

dilipkumarjena — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:23:10 +0000

Correct option for the above question is Option 4 .

4. SELECT Price [@Price], ProductName AS [*]
FROM CurrentProducts
FOR XML PATH(‘Product’), ROOT(‘ProductExport’)

Why ?
because provides the output that was requested. This is the correct choice.

Option #1 is aliasing the table CurrentProductas as ProductExport. This is not going give a result stream with a root node of ProductExport. Hence INVALID

Option #2 Gives a root node of ProductExport, but doesn’t provide the Product tag.Hence invalid.

Option #3 It doesn’t provide a root node. Hence Invalid

DILIP KUMAR JENA
Country: INIDA

By: haresh ambaliya

haresh ambaliya — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:03:13 +0000

Correct Ans is: #4

SELECT Price [@Price], ProductName AS [*]
FROM CurrentProducts
FOR XML PATH(‘Product’), ROOT(‘ProductExport’)

Because, we want path as product and root element as ProductExport.
In alternet querys there is not path name, root name specified.

–
Haresh Ambaliya (INDIA)

By: Vaishali Jain

Vaishali Jain — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:46:57 +0000

Correct answer is option 4.

This query includes xml clause for root element (ProductExport), and each xml element(Product) within it. It also has @Price attribute defined for Price column which matches all the criteria defined for generating the xml displayed

Vaishali Jain
Country of Residence: Hyderabad, India.

By: Sale A. A.

Sale A. A. — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:54:41 +0000

The correct Option 4) SELECT Price [@Price], ProductName AS [*]
FROM CurrentProducts
FOR XML PATH(‘Product’), ROOT(‘ProductExport’).
(Sale, Nigeria

By: Hema Chaudhry

Hema Chaudhry — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:23:21 +0000

Hi,

The correct answer is Option 4

SELECT Price [@Price], ProductName AS [*]
FROM CurrentProducts
FOR XML PATH(‘Product’), ROOT(‘ProductExport’)

Explanation is -

As per the question the requirements are-

Root node name – ProductExport
Top level element tag – Product .
Attribute – alias Price as [@Price] .

Thanks,
Hema Chaudhry,
Delhi, India

By: Varinder Sandhu

Varinder Sandhu — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 16:03:06 +0000

Correct answer is option 4 as

SELECT Price [@Price], ProductName AS [*]
FROM CurrentProducts
FOR XML PATH(‘Product’), ROOT(‘ProductExport’)

Varinder Sandhu (India)

By: Nikhil Mahajan

Nikhil Mahajan — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:18:11 +0000

the correct answer is option no 4 i.e.

4. SELECT Price [@Price], ProductName AS [*]
FROM CurrentProducts
FOR XML PATH(‘Product’), ROOT(‘ProductExport’)

which will give you desired output…

India

By: Dipti

Dipti — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:39:21 +0000

Option 4 is correct
India

By: Kevin Scharnhorst

Kevin Scharnhorst — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:19:04 +0000

4.SELECT Price [@Price], ProductName AS [*]
FROM CurrentProducts
FOR XML PATH(‘Product’), ROOT(‘ProductExport’)

Kevin Scharnhorst
United States

By: dufagundes

dufagundes — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 14:03:40 +0000

The correction is Option 4

Country of Residence:BRL

By: David Seefeld

David Seefeld — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:29:33 +0000

The correction is Option 4

SELECT Price [@Price], ProductName AS [*]
FROM CurrentProducts
FOR XML PATH(‘Product’), ROOT(‘ProductExport’)

Option 1 and 3 don’t state ROOT(‘ProductExport’)
Option 2 doesn’t declare the custom attribute Price

Country of Residence:USA

By: Ron A. Farris

Ron A. Farris — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 13:11:09 +0000

correct Answer is:
4. SELECT Price [@Price], ProductName AS [*]
FROM CurrentProducts
FOR XML PATH(‘Product’), ROOT(‘ProductExport’)
Because we want to show both attributes and elements we will use XML PATH,
change the ROOT Node for opening and closing tags to ProductsExport. Include the @ price to add to the Products tag.

Ron A. Farris – USA

By: Bill Pepping

Bill Pepping — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:58:14 +0000

Hi Pinal,

Challenge:
Question 32
You need to generate the following XML document from your CurrentProducts table:

Product1
Product2
Product3
Product4

Which query should you use?

1. SELECT Price, ProductName
FROM CurrentProducts AS ProductExport
FOR XML PATH(‘Product’)

2. SELECT Price, ProductName
FROM CurrentProducts
FOR XML AUTO, ROOT(‘ProductExport’)

3. SELECT Price [@Price], ProductName AS [*]
FROM CurrentProducts AS ProductExport
FOR XML AUTO, ELEMENTS

4. SELECT Price [@Price], ProductName AS [*]
FROM CurrentProducts
FOR XML PATH(‘Product’), ROOT(‘ProductExport’)

Correct Answer:
The correct choice is #4:
4. SELECT Price [@Price], ProductName AS [*]
FROM CurrentProducts
FOR XML PATH(‘Product’), ROOT(‘ProductExport’)

Explanation:
Choice #1 is aliasing the table CurrentProductas as ProductExport. This won’t give a result stream with a root node of ProductExport. This choice is incorrect.

Choice #2 provides a root node of ProductExport, but doesn’t provide the Product tag. This choice is incorrect.

Choice #3 doesn’t provide a root node. This choice is incorrect.

Choice #4 provides the output that was requested. This is the correct choice.

Country:
United States

Thanks for the knowledge!

Regards,

Bill Pepping