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Retrieve data from your database directly into SharePoint using the XSLT Data View web part in SharePoint Designer. It is shown how to do just that. In addition, you will learn how you can create a parent-child relationship between data from the database and data in a SharePoint list using web part connections.

XSLT List View web part is a new type of web part that lets you manipulate data in a flexible manner using SharePoint Designer. A designer can easily connect to a variety of data sources to display data as needed and also setup any required conditional formatting of data. The best part about this setup is that a member of the site who is later using this data through the browser can easily interact with the views of this data or create additional views.