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].[TABLE1]
        FOR XML PATH('ChildNodeDetailsResponse')
            ,ROOT('ParentNode')
        )

SELECT @XmlData AS Result