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Build queries with FetchXML

 

Applies To: Dynamics 365 (online), Dynamics 365 (on-premises), Dynamics CRM 2016, Dynamics CRM Online

FetchXML is a proprietary query language that is used in Microsoft Dynamics 365 (online & on-premises). It’s based on a schema that describes the capabilities of the language. The FetchXML language supports similar query capabilities as query expressions. In addition, it’s used as a serialized form of query, used to save a query as a user-owned saved view in the userquery entity and as an organization-owned saved view in the savedquery entity.

A FetchXML query can be executed by using the IOrganizationService.RetrieveMultiple method. You can convert a FetchXML query to a query expression with the FetchXmlToQueryExpressionRequest message.

For information about how to use LINQPad to work with FetchXML, see this blog post: Getting FetchXML from LINQPad.

For information about a utility that you can use to convert SQL scripts to FetchXML, see SQL2FetchXML Help.

In This Section

Use FetchXML to construct a query

Use FetchXML aggregation

Page large result sets with FetchXML

Fiscal date and "older than" date/time query operators in FetchXML

Use a left outer join in FetchXML to query for records "not in"

Sample: Use aggregation in FetchXML

Sample: Use FetchXML with a paging cookie

Sample: Convert queries between Fetch and QueryExpression

Sample: Validate and execute a saved query

Build queries with LINQ (.NET language-integrated query)

Build queries with QueryExpression

Retrieve records for many-to-many relationships using intersect entities

FetchXML schema

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