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

stored procedure

declare @requestResultXML xml

set @requestResultXML =
            (
                SELECT 'NPOIT-1.0' AS '@Interface',
                (
                    select  'Query'     as '@Type',
                            'GetBill'   as '@Query',
                            'True'      as '@CompressResult'
                        FOR XML PATH('Head'), TYPE
                ),
                (
                    select  @pin        as '@PIN',
                            @period     as '@Period',
                            @number     as '@Number',
                            @barcode    as '@Barcode'
                        FOR XML PATH('QueryParams'), TYPE
                )   as Data

                FOR XML PATH('DataExchangeModule')              
            )

select @requestResultXML as GetBillRequest