This video demonstrates a simple technique to modify SQL statements to return XML rather than tabular data.
- [Instructor] In Microsoft SQL Server, there's a number…of ways we can work with XML.…One of the easiest is to take data that's currently…being stored in a table and display it as XML.…So rather than display the data as columns and rows,…we will instead return the data as XML.…In order to do this, I'll start off with a general…SQL select statement, in a new query window.…We'll be working with the Application.People table…and the columns I'm interested in are FullName,…PreferredName, EmailAddress.…
So if we run this query as-is, the data…will be returned to us in columns and rows.…If we would prefer for that to be returned to us in XML,…all we have to do is add a few keywords at the end…of the statement.…So I'm going to add FOR XML AUTO, A-U-T-O, and then run…the query again.…And now what's returned to me is XML.…I'll click on it, and we'll see, we were returned…one row of XML for each row in the database.…
And all of what had been in columns is…now instead in attributes.…So we have a tag called Application.People, and that is…
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11/16/2016- Installing SQL Management Studio
- Using SQL Server Configuration Monitor
- Creating a database
- Creating tables with SMS and T-SQL
- Creating relationships between tables
- Creating views
- Writing queries to return XML
- Working with XML and JSON
- Backing up and restoring SQL Server
- Monitoring and management
- Security
- Performance
- Integrating SQL Server with cloud services like Azure
Skill Level Intermediate
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1. Overview of SQL Server 2016
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SQL Server editions2m 22s
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Basic installation6m 22s
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Activity Monitor3m 31s
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5. Creating Tables in a Database
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Create a table using T-SQL1m 41s
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In-memory tables3m 34s
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Temporal tables5m 19s
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6. Creating Views in Databases
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Create a view3m 17s
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7. Understanding Programmability
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Stored procedures3m 23s
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Built-in functions1m 50s
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Scalar functions2m 10s
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8. Working with XML
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Introduction to XML1m 29s
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Write queries to return XML2m 38s
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Shred XML2m 23s
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Working with XML schemas1m 48s
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Storing XML3m 38s
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Working with JSON2m 29s
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Storing JSON2m 19s
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10. Backup and Restore
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Basic backups2m 32s
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Basic restore2m 48s
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11. Monitoring and Management
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Audit logins2m 35s
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Instance-level logins2m 47s
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Database-level users2m 24s
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Encrypt data5m 24s
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13. Performance
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Basics of indexes3m 4s
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Create an index6m 18s
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Columnstore index3m 12s
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Explore execution plans5m 1s
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Overview of Query Store3m 18s
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14. Cloud
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Back up to Azure3m 9s
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Set up Stretch Database4m 46s
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Monitor Stretch Database1m 24s
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Conclusion
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Next steps33s
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