IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.objects WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[foo_SensorsDigitalOut]') AND type in (N'FN', N'IF', N'TF', N'FS', N'FT')) DROP FUNCTION [dbo].[foo_SensorsDigitalOut] 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_SensorsDigitalOut]') AND type in (N'FN', N'IF', N'TF', N'FS', N'FT')) BEGIN execute dbo.sp_executesql @statement = N'CREATE FUNCTION [dbo].[foo_SensorsDigitalOut] ( ) RETURNS xml AS BEGIN RETURN isnull((SELECT [Id] ,[SerialNumber] ,[DelayMS] ,[DurationMS] ,[OutputMode] ,[LimitDuration] ,[LastModified] ,[LastModifiedBy] ,[Version] ,[LocalOnly] ,[DurationMSFloat] ,[UserTags] FROM [dbo].[SensorsDigitalOut] Sensor for xml auto, BINARY BASE64), '''') END ' END GO