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tzertuche-806219

Posted Thursday, August 16, 2012 3:40 PM

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I am using the following code to import an XML file via Sql Server. The XML file is verified to be properly formatted. If I import the entire file the results of the final SQL statement are empty. If I remove half the data in the file it imports fine. I have switched the top and the bottom half of data to rule out a character set issue. It seems to be a size issue? Has anyone had this problem? I can import the file with no issue via SSIS but I would rather use this method. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

CREATE TABLE XmlImportTest
(
xmlFileName VARCHAR(300),
xml_data xml
)
GO

DECLARE @xmlFileName VARCHAR(300)
SELECT @xmlFileName = '\\servername\e$\xml_test\PD_852_387401.xml'
-- dynamic sql is just so we can use @xmlFileName variable in OPENROWSET
EXEC('
INSERT INTO XmlImportTest(xmlFileName, xml_data)

SELECT ''' + @xmlFileName + ''', xmlData
FROM
(
SELECT *
FROM OPENROWSET (BULK ''' + @xmlFileName + ''' , SINGLE_BLOB) AS XMLDATA
) AS FileImport (XMLDATA)
')
GO
SELECT * FROM XmlImportTest

DROP TABLE XmlImportTest

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Post #1346278

wolfkillj

Posted Monday, August 20, 2012 9:17 AM

Right there with Babe

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IIRC, the SINGLE_BLOB option returns the data as single-row, single-column value of type varbinary(max), and when using OPENROWSET to import LOB data that exceeds 8,000 bytes in length, you have to use a format file to specify the maximum length of the data. See here for more:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178129(SQL.90).aspx

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