Question

I have the following TSQL statement:

select    tblName     'TblName',   structure   'TblName/STRUCTURE',   sqlRetrieve 'TblName/SQLRETRIEVE',   Identifier  'TblName/IDENTIFIER',   '2'         'TblName/OBJECTTYPE' from    configTable  for xml path ('') 

which outputs:

<TblName>PD_CODE_PRODUCTS   <STRUCTURE>PD_CODE_PRODUCTS</STRUCTURE>   <SQLRETRIEVE>BATCHSP</SQLRETRIEVE>   <IDENTIFIER>DATA_OWNER</IDENTIFIER>   <OBJECTTYPE>2</OBJECTTYPE> </TblName> <TblName>PD_two   <STRUCTURE>PD_CODE_PRODUCTS</STRUCTURE>   <SQLRETRIEVE>BATCHSP</SQLRETRIEVE>   <IDENTIFIER>DATA_OWNER</IDENTIFIER>   <OBJECTTYPE>2</OBJECTTYPE> </TblName> 

but I want to have this output (the element name :

<PD_CODE_PRODUCTS>   <STRUCTURE>PD_CODE_PRODUCTS</STRUCTURE>   <SQLRETRIEVE>BATCHSP</SQLRETRIEVE>   <IDENTIFIER>DATA_OWNER</IDENTIFIER>   <OBJECTTYPE>2</OBJECTTYPE> </PD_CODE_PRODUCTS> <PD_two>   <STRUCTURE>PD_CODE_PRODUCTS</STRUCTURE>   <SQLRETRIEVE>BATCHSP</SQLRETRIEVE>   <IDENTIFIER>DATA_OWNER</IDENTIFIER>   <OBJECTTYPE>2</OBJECTTYPE> </PD_two> 

Does anybody know how to achieve this with T-SQL?

Thanks
Daniel

Answer 1

I don’t think you’ll be able to achieve this with T-SQL, unfortunately.

The closest you could get is this:

<TABLE Name='PD_CODE_PRODUCTS'>   <TblName>     <STRUCTURE>PD_CODE_PRODUCTS</STRUCTURE>     <SQLRETRIEVE>BATCHSP</SQLRETRIEVE>     <IDENTIFIER>DATA_OWNER</IDENTIFIER>     <OBJECTTYPE>2</OBJECTTYPE>   </TblName> </TABLE> <TABLE Name='PD two'>   <TblName>     <STRUCTURE>PD_CODE_PRODUCTS</STRUCTURE>     <SQLRETRIEVE>BATCHSP</SQLRETRIEVE>     <IDENTIFIER>DATA_OWNER</IDENTIFIER>     <OBJECTTYPE>2</OBJECTTYPE>   </TblName> </TABLE> 

if you adapt your query to be:

select    tblName '@Name',   structure   'TblName/STRUCTURE',   sqlRetrieve 'TblName/SQLRETRIEVE',   Identifier  'TblName/IDENTIFIER',   '2'         'TblName/OBJECTTYPE' from    configTable  for xml path ('TABLE') 

Sorry I can’t be of more help here – guess that’s a feature Microsoft hasn’t really considered (so far)! 🙂

Marc