Question

I was looking at these examples on Microsoft.com here:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316005

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa225754%28v=sql.80%29.aspx

But it’s saying in part of it’s steps that VBScript code has to be executed, and I wasn’t able to find where the VBScript should be executed. Is it possible to be executed in SQL Server itself?

The code from the site looks something like this:

 Set objBL = CreateObject("SQLXMLBulkLoad.SQLXMLBulkLoad")
 objBL.ConnectionString = "provider=SQLOLEDB.1;data source=MySQLServer;
                           database=MyDatabase;uid=MyAccount;pwd=MyPassword"
 objBL.ErrorLogFile = "c:\error.log"
 objBL.Execute "c:\customermapping.xml", "c:\customers.xml"
 Set objBL = Nothing

This looks like it could be executed in classic asp or something, but I prefer to keep it inside SQL Server. Does anyone know how to execute something like this all with-in SQL Server? or does anyone have a better method for Bulk import XML into SQL server?

Answer 1

SQL Server is capable of reading XML and inserting it as you need. Here is an example of an XML file and insertion pulled from here:

XML:

<Products>
  <Product>
    <SKU>1</SKU>
    <Desc>Book</Desc>
  </Product>
  <Product>
    <SKU>2</SKU>
    <Desc>DVD</Desc>
  </Product>
  <Product>
    <SKU>3</SKU>
    <Desc>Video</Desc>
  </Product>
</Products>

Insert statement that is parsing the XML:

INSERT INTO Products (sku, product_desc) 
SELECT X.product.query('SKU').value('.', 'INT'),
       X.product.query('Desc').value('.', 'VARCHAR(30)')
FROM ( 
SELECT CAST(x AS XML)
FROM OPENROWSET(
     BULK 'C:\Products.xml',
     SINGLE_BLOB) AS T(x)
     ) AS T(x)
CROSS APPLY x.nodes('Products/Product') AS X(product);