Get all Persons via Database select

Hello all,

if you ever need to get all Persons and its string values in an easy way directly from your database such as the xpath select

" Select * from /Person" use following Database select against your FimService Database:

--determine dynamically the columns for pivot

DECLARE @cols AS NVARCHAR(MAX),
@query  AS NVARCHAR(MAX)

select @cols = STUFF((SELECT ',' + QUOTENAME(Name)
                    FROM [fim].[ObjectValueString] AS [o]
                    INNER JOIN [fim].[AttributeInternal] AS [ai]
                    ON [ai].[Key] = [o].[AttributeKey]
                    WHERE            
                    [o].[ObjectTypeKey] = 24   
                    group by Name FOR XML PATH(''), TYPE).value('.', 'NVARCHAR(MAX)'),1,1,'')

set @query = N'SELECT ' + @cols + N' from
             (SELECT        
                [ai].[Name],
                CAST ([o].[ValueString] AS NVARCHAR(MAX)) as Value,
                ROW_NUMBER() over(partition by [ai].Name order by [o].[ValueString]) rn
                FROM [fim].[ObjectValueString] AS [o]
                INNER JOIN [fim].[AttributeInternal] AS [ai]
                ON [ai].[Key] = [o].[AttributeKey]
                WHERE       
                [o].[ObjectTypeKey] = 24 --Type for Persons
             ) x
             pivot
             (
                Max(Value)
                for Name in (' + @cols + N')
             ) p '

exec sp_executesql @query;