How to convert records in a table to xml format using T-SQL?

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I've got a simple table and want to store its content into a xml on the harddrive.
There should be one root element for the whole table, one element per table row and
one child element per table column.
What possibilities do I have?
Thanks a lot Tomas
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Use the FOR XML in your query.

E.g: select * from table1 FOR XML AUTO
see this -->
http://searchsqlserver.techtarget.com/tip/0,289483,sid87_gci1265579,00.html
Alternatively, you can create your own XML in your t-sql code through cursors or in
your application code, the longer way of doing it.

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Thank you, Bhaskardeep Khaund! That solved my issue. � Tomas Walek Oct 14 '09 at
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And if you need more control over how the resulting XML looks like, check out the
new FOR XML PATH statement in SQL Server 2005 and newer.
A statement like this (based on the infamous Northwind database):
SELECT
CustomerID as "@CustomerID",
CompanyName,
Address as "address/street",
City as "address/city",
Region as "address/region",
PostalCode as "address/zip",
Country as "address/country",
ContactName as "contact/name",
ContactTitle as "contact/title",
Phone as "contact/phone",
Fax as "contact/fax"
FROM Customers
FOR XML PATH('Customer')
will result in an output like this:
<Customer CustomerID="ALFKI">
<CompanyName>Alfreds Futterkiste</CompanyName>
<address>
<street>Obere Str. 57</street>
<city>Berlin</city>
<zip>12209</zip>
<country>Germany</country>
</address>
<contact>
<name>Maria Anders</name>
<title>Sales Representative</title>
<phone>030-0074321</phone>
<fax>030-0076545</fax>
</contact>
</Customer>
That's rather tricky to get any other way....
Marc

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How do I do the reverse i.e. convert XML back to a table � Raihan Iqbal Dec 14 '17
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@RaihanIqbal: look at the built-in XQuery support in T-SQL - using .query(),
.nodes() and .value(), you can definitely do that - but that's a whole different
question :-) � marc_s Dec 14 '17 at 5:37
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This is good stuff! I'd only add that the Questioner wanted "one root element for
the whole table". To do this, simply add ROOT('Root') like so: FOR XML
PATH('Customer'), ROOT('Customers') � MikeTeeVee Jun 30 '18 at 21:37
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SELECT CAST('1' AS XML)

This Query fire in sql and your copy data put inside then show XML Result.

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