Hi,
Do any versions of SQL Server support the following functions, as
they appear in the Oracle Database:-

1) XMLElement
2) XMLAttributes
3) XMLForest

Thanks in Advance for your reply
Bye

Amardeep Verma (addverma@netscape.net) writes:
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Since I don't know Oracle, I don't know what these functions do. It is
not likely that SQL Server supports these functions directly, but it
may support the same functionality. You would need to explain what these
functions do to get answer.


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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

Books Online for SQL Server SP3 at

Hi,
Thanks Erland for your Response. These Functions take simple
SELECT statement and return the result in a XML format. With each
Column name as a tag and the value in that column as the data.
For Example the Employee Table of NorthWind Database has 3
columns:-
1) EmpNo
2) EmpLastName
3) EmpFirstName
Then using the below mentioned functions we can get the output
<EMP>
<EMPNo>1</EMPNo>
<EMPFirstName>ABC</EMPFirstName>
<EMPLastName>XYZ</EMPLastName>
</EMP>

Hope this helps
Amardeep Verma

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