Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 10/01/38 11:23

(adrianca@gmail.com) writes:
> Thanks Mark. Could i create a temp table, with the cell values as
> columns and build a sql xml query or loop from there?
> Although im not too sure if that would work, very efficiently?

I can't see that you can do this in SQL 2000 at all. Well, you can
build an nvarchar string that has the XML, and forego FOR XML
altogether, but if you exceed 4000 characters you lose anyway.

I think you need to build this document client-side.


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