for-xml-path

Consider the following SQL: ;WITH XMLNAMESPACES(DEFAULT 'http://www.mynamespace.co.uk') ,CTE_DummyData AS ( select id=1 ) select TOP 1 [@ID]=1, (select top 1 [@ID] = 1 FROM CTE_DummyData FOR XML PATH ('Child'), TYPE) from CTE_DummyData FOR XML PATH ('Parent') Thie returns the xml: <Parent xmlns="http://www.mynamespace.co.uk" ID="1"> <Child xmlns="http://www.mynamespace.co.uk" ID="1" /> </Parent> What I need is to return the xml with the xmlns declaration on only the root element. eg: <Parent xmlns="http://www.mynamespace.co.uk" ID="1"> <Child ID="1" /> </Parent> Is there a way to do this? Note

I got two tables with data as listed below: Table1: Student Table2: Subject I need the output as: I got this acheived with below query using for XML PATH Code: WITH cte AS ( SELECT Stu.Student_Id , Stu.Student_Name , ( SELECT Sub.[Subject] + ',' FROM [Subject] AS Sub WHERE Sub.Student_Id = Stu.Student_Id ORDER BY Sub.[Subject] FOR XML PATH('') ) AS [Subjects] FROM dbo.Student AS Stu ) SELECT Student_id [Student Id] , student_name [Student Name] , SUBSTRING(Subjects, 1, ( LEN(Subjects) - 1 )) AS [Student Subjects] FROM cte My question is there a better way to do this without using XML Path?

here's the script to create the needed data: CREATE TABLE [dbo].[TestXML]( [ID] [int] NOT NULL, [PID] [int] NULL, [Code] [int] NULL, [Col1] [int] NULL, [Col2] [int] NULL, [Col3] [decimal](6, 2) NULL, [Col4] [decimal](6, 2) NULL, [Col5] [int] NULL, CONSTRAINT [PK_TestXML] PRIMARY KEY CLUSTERED ([ID] ASC) ) GO CREATE TABLE [dbo].[XML_Columns_Reference]( [TableName] nvarchar(10) NULL, [TableNameXML] nvarchar(10) NULL, [ColumnName] nvarchar(10) NULL, [ColumnNameXML] nvarchar(10) NULL, [ColumnOrder] [int] NULL, [GroupName] nvarchar(10) NULL, [GroupOrder] [int] NULL, [Category] [int] NULL ) ON

Hi! Today I learned for xml path technique to concatenate strings in mssql. Since I've never worked with xml in mssql and google hasn't helped, I need to ask you. Let's imagine the default case. We need to concatenate some strings from a table: declare @xmlRepNames xml = ( select ', [' + report_name + ']' from ( select distinct report_order, report_name from #report ) x order by report_order for xml path(''), type) select stuff((select @xmlRepNames.value('.', 'nvarchar(max)')), 1, 1, '') So I get smth like this: [str1], [str2], [strn] Ok. It works fine. But I have two very similar concatenate

I have a question. I know that has been asked before. I looked through the related questions but I could not get my SQL script to work. Here is my query : SELECT T1.PART_ID, T2.ID, T2.DESCRIPTION FROM #TEMP T1 INNER JOIN #TEMP2 T2 ON T1.PART_ID = T2.PART_ID ORDER BY T2.ID Table: PART_ID | ID | DESCRIPTION ---------------------------------- 10002 | 1182505 | Tagfahrlichtschaltung 80029 | 1182505 | Bluetooth 20004 | 1212866 | Kindersitzbefestigung 10045 | 1212866 | Lederlenkradrriegelung 11908 | 1257946 | Airbag 22346 | 1257946 | Automatic I want have the result like: ID | LISTOFPARTS ----------