Question

Ok. So I am pretty new a this. I have a datatable that I want to pass to a stored procedure for further manipulation. I have read some stuff on the web and it looks like I should be able to convert the datatable to XML and then pass that to the stored procedure. What am I doning wrong? I have SQL server 2005. The data never gets passed to the stored procedure.

Sub Test()     Dim dt As New DataTable      Fill datatable code omitted. there are 150 rows in the datatable after this      Dim ds As New DataSet     ds.Tables.Add(dt)     Dim x As XmlDocument     x.LoadXml(dt.DataSet.GetXml)     Dim ta As New dsTestTableAdapters.TESTRxTableAdapter     ta.ProcessFile(x) End Sub 

The Stored procedure looks like this…

ALTER PROCEDURE [dbo].[ProcessFile]      (          @x XML      ) AS BEGIN  'DO STUFF HERE  END 

Answer 1

OK. This is what I go to work. I don’t know if this is the best way, but this works for me.

Sub Test     Dim ds as new DataSet ('Testds')     Dim dt as New DataTable('Testdt')     'Fill Datatable code omitted  Dim ta as new dsTest.TestTableAdapter     'TableAdapter returns a datatable to ensure that the stored procedure worked     ta.AddDataToDB(dt,ds.GetXML)      Me.DataGridView1.DataSource=dt     End Sub 

The Stored Procedure Looks like this.

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[AddDataToDB]      (          @x XML      ) AS     BEGIN         DECLARE @data TABLE (                             TestCol1 VARCHAR(50),                             [TestCol2] VARCHAR(50),                              [TestCol3] VARCHAR(50),                              )          INSERT INTO @data (                            [TestCol1],                            [TestCol2],                            [TestCol3]                           )         SELECT              xmlVals.rowvals.query('TestCol1').value('.','VARCHAR(50)'),             xmlVals.rowvals.query('TestCol2').value('.','VARCHAR(50)'),             xmlVals.rowvals.query('TestCol3').value('.','VARCHAR(50)')         FROM              @x.nodes('/Testds/Testdt') as xmlVals(rowvals)            SELECT * FROM @data           END