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Learn to Love Tolerate FetchXML

Overview

FetchXML seems to be a quirky subset of the SQL implemented in XML and optimized for UI tasks, including:

• the ability select specific fields (foo, b.bar) or all fields (*) from an entity
• perform LEFT OUTER and INNER joins
• assign aliases to attributes (select a.b as foo) and (joined) entities (left join foo as BAR)