Question

I got a row structure looks like ID bigint, ScanRept XML

I want to wind up with a file named 4.xml containing just the xml from the ScanRept column where the ID number is 4.

I don’t want to do it interactively (by going into Manager Studio, finding the row, right-clicking the field and doing Save AS) – that’s what I’ll do if I can’t figure out a better way.

I do have C# available; if this is doable with sqlcmd, that’s my preference (cause there will probably be a lot of variations I can’t anticipate right now).

Answer 1

There is probably a better way to do this…but without testing something like this might work.C#

SqlDataAdapter adapter = new SqlDataAdapter('SELECT ID, ScanRept FROM TableName', 'connString'); DataTable dt = new DataTable(); adapter.Fill(dt);  foreach (DataRow row in dt.Rows) {     string type = row['ID'].ToString();     string location = 'C\\' + type + '.xml';     string xml = row['ScanRept'].ToString();     XmlTextWriter writer = new XmlTextWriter(location, null);     writer.WriteString(xml);     writer.Flush();     writer.Close(); }