Printing table contents for debugging purposes in T-SQL

23 August, 2013 Roel van Lisdonk 0 Comments

Sometimes you just want to add a print statement in a stored procedure to output the contents of a table.

Then you can use the "FOR XML" statement in T-SQL:

declare @Data_as_xml xml
set @Data_as_xml = (select top 4 * from sys.tables FOR XML PATH(''))
print convert(varchar(8000), @Data_as_xml)

Result:

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