XML File Load via OpenRowSet

• tzertuche-806219

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  August 16, 2012 at 3:40 pm

  #143669

  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

• Jason Wolfkill

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  August 20, 2012 at 9:17 am

  #1527683

  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

  Jason Wolfkill