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The Bottom Lineĭepending on your needs, you can choose to use the FOR XML clause to return a query result to XML or export a whole SQL database to XML file. Find the one you prefer and apply it to convert the database you exported to an XML file. When it comes to converting CSV, XLS or HTML to XML, there are many online converters available. This report consists of details of the complete SQL database to CSV conversion. You can choose "Save Report to File." (including Excel, Notepad) to save the report as you need. When it completes, click on the "Report" drop-down button. You can view the exporting process in this step. If everything is right, click "Finish" to start exporting the SQL database to CSV. On the "Complete" Wizard window, you can check all the settings set during of exporting process. Here, on the 'Save and Run Package" window, you don't need to change any settings. Click the "Next" button to move on. And you can also change the default settings of Row & Column delimiter. You can click the "Preview" button to view which data will be exported to the CSV file.

Now, in the "Configure Flat File Destination" screen, you can select the table for exporting from "Source table or view" option. On the Specify Table Copy or Query screen, you can choose to export the SQL database into CSV format either by "Copy data from one or more tables or views" or "Write a query to specify the data to transfer". Then, click Next to go on. In the File name box, specify a CSV file where the data from a SQL Server database will be exported and click the "Next" button. On the "Choose a Destination" window, in the Destination box, choose "Flat File Destination" for copying data from SQL Server to CSV. After everything is set, press the "Next" button. In the Authentication section, choose authentication for the data source connection and from the Database drop-down box, select a database from which data will be copied. In the Server name drop-down box, select a SQL Server instance. Here, select "SQL Server Native Client 11.0". Now, you need to click on the Data source drop-down button to choose the data source you want to copy. Then, the SQL Server Import and Export Wizard welcome window pop up. Right-click on it and choose "Tasks" > "Export Data" to export table data in CSV. Go to "Object Explorer", find the server database you want to export in CSV. Step 1. Open SQL Server Management Studio and connect to the database. Export the SQL Database to XLS (Excel), CSV or HTML To Export SQL database to XML: Procedure 1. If you want to export the whole SQL Server database to the XML file, you can first use the SQL Server Management Studio to export your SQL database to CSV, and then convert CSV to XML using an online converter. You ca also choose to output SQL Server database to Excel and then convert Excel (XLS) to XML. The example of exporting a SQL Server query as XML: PATH: You can enjoy the flexibility of the EXPLICIT mode in an easier way with the PATH mode and the nested FOR XML query capability.With this mode, you have more control over the shape of the XML. Explicit: The EXPLICIT mode enables you to mix the attributes and elements, create wrappers, and more as you like.AUTO: According to the way the SELECT statement is specified, the AUTO mode creates nesting in the resulting XML.It only creates a single row element per row in the rowset that is output by the SELECT statement.

RAW: The RAW mode is the simplest one among the four.When you use a FOR XML clause, you need to specify one of the four modes: RAW, AUTO, EXPLICIT, and PATH. It can be used both in top-level queries (SELECT statement) and in subqueries (INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE statements). With the FOR XML clause, you can save the result of a SQL query as XML. Given that, many users want to save the SQL query result to XML or export the SQL database to the XML file. XML stores data in plain text format, which indicates the simplicity, usability, and generality of this format. XML, Extensible Markup Language, is a markup language which defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that can be read by both human and machine.