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    <p>I am setting a query to send the results via email and I am getting the result formatting incorrect.</p> <p>I want to select values from two tables where in table 1 a certain field is null and also add a related field from table 2 where table 1 id = table 2 id. But also include fields in table 1 that may not be in table 2 but has the certain field null.</p> <pre><code> DECLARE @TITLE NVARCHAR(MAX) DECLARE @BODY NVARCHAR(MAX) SET @TITLE =CAST(( SELECT DISTINCT A.CUSTKEY as 'td','', B.CUSTPROJ as 'td','', A.ITEMS AS 'td','', A.SOLDDATE as 'td','', A.LASTORDEREDDATE as 'td','', A.OBJID as 'td' FROM PRODUCTDATA AS A LEFT OUTER JOIN CLIENT_TABLE as B on A.CUSTkey = B.CUSTkey WHERE LASTORDEREDDATE IS NULL GROUP BY A.CUSTKEY,B.CUSTPROJ, A.ITEMS, A.SOLDDATE, A.OBJID,A.LASTORDEREDDATE FOR XML PATH ('tr'), ELEMENTS) AS NVARCHAR(MAX)) SET @BODY = '&lt;html&gt;&lt;body&gt;&lt;H4&gt;NEW CLIENT PURCHASES&lt;/H4&gt; &lt;table border = 2&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;th&gt; CUST KEY &lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt; CLIENT NAME &lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt; NEW PURCHASES &lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt; SOLD DATE &lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt; ORDERED DATE &lt;/th&gt; &lt;th&gt; PRODUCT ID &lt;/th&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;' SET @BODY = @BODY + @TITLE + '&lt;/TABLE&gt;&lt;/BODY&gt;&lt;/HTML&gt;' EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail @profile_name='DB Admin', @body = @BODY, @body_format = 'HTML'; </code></pre> <p>But it appears as follows:</p> <pre><code>NEW CLIENT PURCHASES CUSTkEY CLIENT NAME NEW PURCHASES SOLD DATE ORDERED DATE PRODUCT ID 9189ad PHOEBE LDS 20130107T12:15:00 NULL BGD01 8765ad MONICA PANTS 20130107T12:15:00 NULL BGD01 3421ad JOEY BAG 20130107T12:15:00 NULL BGD01 2354ad RACHEL HAT 20130107T12:15:00 NULL BGD01 7653ef SHOES 20121213T06:15:00 hfd00 </code></pre> <p>As you can see the last row happens to be a row in table 1 where the client does not exist in the client table 2 and thus the row should look like this:</p> <pre><code> CUSTkEY CLIENT NAME NEW PURCHASES SOLD DATE ORDERED DATE PRODUCT ID 7653ef SHOES 20121213T06:15:00 NULL hfd00 </code></pre>
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    2. COTry to use `XSINIL` in query like `FOR XML PATH ('tr'), ELEMENTS XSINIL`. Maybe it will allow to keep placeholders for empty values
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    3. COthe xsinil worked...thanks much
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