How to choose returned column name in a SELECT FOR XML query?

Question

MS SQL has a convenient workaround for concatenating a column value from multiple rows into one value:

SELECT col1
 FROM table1
 WHERE col2 = \'x\'
 ORDER by col         


        

Answer 1

DECLARE @XmlData XML;
SET @XmlData =(SELECT * FROM [dbo].[Users] ORDER by UserName FOR XML path(''))
SELECT @XmlData AS Result