Question

I’m new to C# and have been working on learning database’s. Currently I’m trying to import data from a XML document that has items stored as follows:

   <CityData>
        <City>Ada</City>
        <County>Olmsted</County>
        <AreaCode>507</AreaCode>
        <Founded>1900</Founded>
        <CityWebSite>www.adacity.com</CityWebSite>
        <Population>1200</Population>
        <Zipcode>56996</Zipcode>
        <ZipcodeMax>57656</ZipcodeMax>
    </CityData>

I’m trying to save each data collection to a different row in a SQL Express database. I’ve been able to store other information in the database, I just don’t know how to do this with a XML document. The database is stored locally on my machine along with the C# program I’m writing. I have a new table with columns named and ordered like the XML documents schema. The tutorials I’m finding online are for .asp programs. Has anyone ever done this? This is a C# Forms Program.

Answer 1

This will do your job. please make sure to replace filePath\fileName.xml with full path to the xml and change /dataroot/CityData (at the bottom) as per your xml. Also sql should be able to access the file.

Declare @xml XML

Select  @xml  = 
CONVERT(XML,bulkcolumn,2) FROM OPENROWSET(BULK 'filePath\fileName.xml',SINGLE_BLOB) AS X

SET ARITHABORT ON

Insert into [YourTableName] 
        (
            City,County,AreaCode,Founded,CityWebSite,[Population],Zipcode,ZipcodeMax
        )

    Select 
        P.value('City[1]','VARCHAR(100)') AS City,
        P.value('County[1]','VARCHAR(100)') AS County,
        P.value('AreaCode[1]','VARCHAR(100)') AS AreaCode,
        P.value('Founded[1]','VARCHAR(100)') AS Founded,
        P.value('CityWebSite[1]','VARCHAR(100)') AS CityWebSite,
        P.value('Population[1]','VARCHAR(100)') AS Population,
        P.value('Zipcode[1]','VARCHAR(100)') AS Zipcode,
        P.value('ZipcodeMax[1]','VARCHAR(100)') AS ZipcodeMax,

    From @xml.nodes('/dataroot/CityData') PropertyFeed(P)