Question

Is there a way to get this XML from “select * from ANY_TABLE” query?

<root>
    <row>
        <column name="id" value="321">
        <column name="name" value="Book">
    </row>
    <row>
        <column name="id" value="654">
        <column name="name" value="Pen">
    </row>
</root>

Answer 1

Here is a way to get the result you want.

declare @T table(id int, name varchar(20))

insert into @T values(321, 'Book')
insert into @T values(654, 'Pen')

select (
         select 'id' as '@name',
                T.id as '@value'
         for xml path('column'), type
       ),
       (
         select 'name' as '@name',
                T.name as '@value'
         for xml path('column'), type
       )
from @T as T
for xml path('row'), root('root')

If you want this to work for any table using select * you can use this instead.
Just replace @T with whatever your table name is. Note: this will only work if the column names are valid XML element names.

select 
  (
    select T3.N.value('local-name(.)', 'sysname') as '@name',
           T3.N.value('.', 'nvarchar(max)') as '@value'
    from (
           select T1.*
           for xml path(''), type
         ) T2(N)
      cross apply T2.N.nodes('*') as T3(N)       
    for xml path('column'), root('row'), type
  )         
from @T as T1
for xml path(''), root('root')