RAW Mode

When specified at the end of a SELECT statement, the keywords FOR XML RAW tell SQL Server to generate a one-XML-element-per-row structure. The FOR XML statement has a few options that change its output from the default of document fragments to well-formed documents with a slightly (compared to a few other FOR XML options) reshaped structure. This is its syntax:

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FOR XML RAW [ ('ElementName') ][[ , BINARY BASE64 ][ , TYPE ][ , ROOT [ ('RootName') ]][ , { XMLDATA | XMLSCHEMA [ ('TargetNameSpaceURI') ]} ][ , ELEMENTS [ XSINIL | ABSENT ] ]

Listing 49.1 illustrates the XML generated by the no-option version of FOR XML RAW. (Note that all the code in this chapter relies on the AdventureWorks2012 sample database.) ...

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