Catalog views are system views that expose most facets of the server and its databases in a tabular form. In this tutorial, we’ll take a closer look at database objects and how they’re represented in a database’s catalog views.
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Creating XML data from a recordset
SQL Server has a wide range of XML features natively built into the platform, and this includes methods to create XML from tabular data, working with XML data and, of course, turning XML data back into a recordset. This primer will go through some common methods of creating XML from a regular SELECT query.