Question

I have these tables

Table 1
tbl1_site
[facilityId]
[name]

Table 2
tbl2_applicant
[pvid]
[facilityId]
[npi]
[firstname]

FK join key: tbl1_site.facilityId = tbl2_applicant.facilityId

Table 3
tbl3_abstraction
[pvid]
[patientnumber]
[diabetesdiagnosis]
[dateofbirth]

FK join key: tbl2_applicant.pvId = tbl3_abstraction.pvId

i have problem to create a sql query to reproduce this xml output.

thanks

<account>
    <metadata />
    <practice-sites>
        <practice-site>
            <metadata>
                <data-element id="name">
                    <value>My Own Diabetes Medical Center</value>
                </data-element>
            </metadata>
            <applicants>
                <metadata />
                <applicant>
                    <metadata>
                        <data-element id="npi">
                            <value>1234567890</value>
                        </data-element>
                        <data-element id="firstname">
                            <value>Joseph</value>
                        </data-element>
                    </metadata>
                    <clinical-abstractions>                           
                        <clinical-abstraction>
                            <data-element id="diabetesdiagnosis">
                                <value>Backward</value>
                            </data-element>
                            <data-element id="dateofbirth">
                                <value>02/01/2009</value>
                            </data-element>
                            <data-element id="patientnumber">
                                <value>1</value>
                            </data-element>
                        </clinical-abstraction>
                    </clinical-abstractions>
                </applicant>
            </applicants>
        </practice-site>
    </practice-sites>
</account>

Answer 1

do you really need all those tags?
I mean the “metadata” and “data-element”

try this query, it shows the data on the format you need:

select  t1.name as PracticeSite,
        (SELECT t2.npi as NPI, 
                t2.firstname,
                (SELECT t3.patientnumber, 
                        t3.diabetesdiagnosis, 
                        t3.dateofbirth
                        FROM tbl3_abstraction t3
                        WHERE t3.pvId=t2.pvId
                        FOR XML PATH('clinical-abstraction'), TYPE
                        ) as 'clinical-abstractions'
                FROM tbl2_applicant t2
                WHERE t1.[facilityId]=t2.[facilityId]
                FOR XML PATH('Applicant'), TYPE
        ) AS 'Applicants'
from tbl1_site t1
FOR XML path('PracticeSites'), root('account'), ELEMENTS;