For xml into insert

Hi,
For reasons beyond the scope of this question, i need to insert into a
varchar field of a table, the output of a select * from table2 for xml auto,
elements .
I haven't figured out a way to do this. any ideas?
thanks
Hello Ishmael,

> For reasons beyond the scope of this question, i need to insert into a
> varchar field of a table, the output of a select * from table2 for xml
> auto, elements . I haven't figured out a way to do this. any ideas?
If you are using SQL Server 2000, you'll need to do this via a round trip
due to the way that the XML Aggregator works -- have some client fetch the
XML and then insert it into the target table column. If you are using SQL
Server 2005, it's pretty easy:
insert into schema.tabke values (xmlCol)
select ... for xml auto,elements
Thank you,
Kent Tegels
DevelopMentor
http://staff.develop.com/ktegels/