Sql openxml from file

I don't have any idea about that. Please help me. Thanks a lot for this great article. I just have one question since I'm new on this. Why you use " " in the Customer attributes? You remarked this in your post, but since I'm new on this, I don't understand how it changes the result. I am using the same concept for loading my XML to Table. Everything is fine except that when my node doesnt have full heirarchy underneath that, records are not getting loaded to the table.

Can you please suggest what is wrong? I am using exact code you have explained above. Thanks for your help.

Hi, Nice post but i have one doubt in above example if my 'ROOT' contains namespace how to include that in stored procedure. We have recently decided to import data in the form of XML, and your reference is perfectly matching our requirement.

I'm unbale to featch the data from xml file into relational table , kindly help me. Given below my XMl File and query. Thank you Arshad, I don't usually comment on these things, but your explanation was awesome!

Your examples were easy to comprehend and adapt to my needs. Fabulous job. XML parsing: line , character , illegal xml character.

Very good article Arshad. I played little bit - really helpful for my upcoming project. Thanks -- Rajesh. Related Articles. Popular Articles. Rolling up multiple rows into a single row and column for SQL Server data. How to tell what SQL Server versions you are running. Resolving could not open a connection to SQL Server errors. Ways to compare and find differences for SQL Server tables and data. Searching and finding a string value in all columns in a SQL Server table.

View all my tips. Challenge is the xml tag name is same at multiple places. See items marked in Bold. When I use your suggested method, I get the values for the repeated xml tags as the first xml tag value. Can you please help me modify my select query with the correct Xpath so that It will return the element marked in bold from the XML doc??

Back To Top I have a similar problem, I have several XML files in a folder, but when reading these, I only read the last file I have, be it 2, 5 or more. It will always read the latest file.

This is my Query. XMLFilesTable --delete from dbo. Openxml works fine for what I am trying to do but I would always like to use the preferred way of doing things Should I rewrite my queries? Or is openxml good enough for the job? Sorry for the general question, I just want my code to be as best as it can be.

Thanks for your time. Getting the following error while trying to execute the query. Hi Arshard, Thank you for your sharing! Looking forward to hearing from you and thank you in advance!

Simon Mallett The solution for your problem is to write 'text ' instead of '.. Hi Arshad, Thanks for the tip, its really helpful. It creates a nice empty table with all the columns as specified in my select statement. Hi Arshad, I have resolved previous artical issue. Please help Anil Panwar. Hi Arshad , Thanks for writing so helpfull article.

Hello everyone, I have a little problem with the code. The nodes method yields instances of a special xml data type, each of which has its context set to a different selected node. All other uses cause an error. Assume that you want to extract the first and last names of authors, and the first name is not "David".

Additionally, you want to extract this information as a rowset that contains two columns, FirstName and LastName. By using nodes and value methods, you can accomplish this as shown in the following:. The first and last names of authors are obtained by evaluating value methods relative to those references. You can specify the relational schema for the rowset and how values inside the XML instance map to columns in the rowset.

In the following example, the table schema declaration in the WITH clause includes xml type columns. For the xmlname column of xml type, the same name element is returned as its value. The flag is set to An XML document can have attributes that are multivalued. In an XML document, the multivalued attribute values are specified as a string, with the values separated by a space. Retrieving individual values from a multivalued XML attribute and storing each value in a separate row in the database requires additional work.

This example shows the process. The id student ID , name , and attends attributes. The attends attribute is a multivalued attribute. The id class ID , name , and attendedBy attributes. The attendedBy attribute is a multivalued attribute. A student can take many classes and a class can have many students. Assume that you want to shred this document and save it in the database as shown in the following:. Save the m:n relationship data, between Student and Class, in the CourseAttendence table.

Additional work is required to extract the values. To retrieve this information and store it in the table, use these stored procedures:. An edge table is used to retrieve these values.

Binary data is frequently included in XML using base64 encoding. Asked 11 years, 1 month ago. Active 11 years, 1 month ago. Viewed 3k times. There is slight problem in this. Help me, guide me to do this. Humdum Humdum 1 1 gold badge 2 2 silver badges 6 6 bronze badges. What version of SQL Server are you using?? Well worded question, and in answering I learned something. Where are you getting this horrific XML from?

Can you push back to whoever is supplying it for them to supply something more sane? Add a comment.