IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.objects WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[foo_DBExportCustomerDetails]') AND type in (N'FN', N'IF', N'TF', N'FS', N'FT')) DROP FUNCTION [dbo].[foo_DBExportCustomerDetails] GO SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON GO IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.objects WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[foo_DBExportCustomerDetails]') AND type in (N'FN', N'IF', N'TF', N'FS', N'FT')) BEGIN execute dbo.sp_executesql @statement = N'CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[foo_DBExportCustomerDetails] ( ) RETURNS xml AS BEGIN RETURN isnull(( SELECT [Name] ,[CustomerName] ,[CustomerTestRefNumber] ,[ProjectRefNumber] ,[CustomerOrderNumber] ,[CustomerCostUnit] ,[LocalOnly] ,[LastModified] ,[LastModifiedBy] ,[Version] FROM [dbo].[CustomerDetails] CustomerDetail for xml auto, BINARY BASE64, root (''CustomerDetails'')), '''') END ' END GO