Software Update Group SQL Info

Hi
I'm trying to create a notification using Orchestrator when a software update group (which is created by an ADR) is created. Can anyone tell me which view to look in to find the information. I've tried several so far to no avail. If I can get the updates
contained in this group that would be even more useful.
Reasons for needing a notification are that customer requires all software updates to go through change control but want's to cut down administrative overhead in deploying software updates so an ADR has been created to download but not deploy them so all
an administrator has to do is deploy the group once approved, rather than create the group, wait etc.

Sorry I don't think this is achieving what I've asked as the xml files contain multiple scope ID's so how am I supposed to work out what corresponds to what I need? How do I even get the scope ID out of an xml within the SQL database in the first place?
I have tried that query with the scope ID's found in the XML's and it has returned no data so I'm convinced that this is not the correct way of doing this. If you can provide the query from start to finish on how to get this information based on the creation
date of a software update group then perhaps we can get somewhere.
This is an xml from one of the rules:
<AutoDeploymentRule xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<DeploymentId>{f327fd31-4530-4eed-8b75-8596f10f08d7}</DeploymentId>
<DeploymentName>Windows Server 2012 Update Deployment</DeploymentName>
<DeploymentDescription />
<UpdateGroupId>ScopeId_8B27AA37-A165-4666-813B-0D79BF2692E5/AuthList_a4759bfe-e7d7-4643-bef2-8779248114b5</UpdateGroupId>
<LocaleId>1033</LocaleId>
<UseSameDeployment>false</UseSameDeployment>
<EnableAfterCreate>false</EnableAfterCreate>
<NoEULAUpdates>false</NoEULAUpdates>
<AlignWithSyncSchedule>false</AlignWithSyncSchedule>
<ScopeIDs>
<ScopeID>P0100001</ScopeID>
<ScopeID>P0100002</ScopeID>
<ScopeID>P0100003</ScopeID>
<ScopeID>P0100004</ScopeID>
<ScopeID>P0100005</ScopeID>
<ScopeID>P0100006</ScopeID>
<ScopeID>SMS00UNA</ScopeID>
</ScopeIDs>
</AutoDeploymentRule>

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