Load XML souce file to a SP parameter

[viriyur]

I have a proc like this (T-SQL, SQL Server 2000):

Alter Proc ImportXML
@chvFullFileName varchar(200),
@txtInputXML text=''
AS

My question is how can I load the contents of the XMLFile into the
parameter called @txtInputXML ? Let us say my full file path is
C:\XML\SampleXML.txt. I want to load this into parameter as one string

What do I use ? bulkcopy or something else ?

Your help would be much appreciated.

Thanks

[Erland Sommarskog]

(vi*****@gmail.com) writes:

I have a proc like this (T-SQL, SQL Server 2000):

Alter Proc ImportXML
@chvFullFileName varchar(200),
@txtInputXML text=''
AS

My question is how can I load the contents of the XMLFile into the
parameter called @txtInputXML ? Let us say my full file path is
C:\XML\SampleXML.txt. I want to load this into parameter as one string

What do I use ? bulkcopy or something else ?

From a client program read the file and then call the procedure.
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[viriyur]

Erland:

Thanks for the reply. Understand your point.
But do not want to use a client program or VB.
Is there a way I can load the file directly from SQL ?

Thanks again

[viriyur]

Erland:

Thanks for the reply. Understand your point.
But do not want to use a client program or VB.
Is there a way I can load the file directly from SQL ?

Thanks again

[Erland Sommarskog]

(vi*****@gmail.com) writes:

Thanks for the reply. Understand your point.
But do not want to use a client program or VB.
Is there a way I can load the file directly from SQL ?

You could use BULK INSERT to load the file into a table. But then you will
not be able to get the XML document out of the table and into a variable,
because you cannot assign to text variables. (If the document is small
you can use nvarchar(4000) or varchar(8000).)

Depending on what you want to do, a better bet may be the XML bulk load
that comes with SQLXML 3.0, which is freely downloadable from Microsoft.
I have never used it myself, so I cannot assist with it.
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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, es****@sommarskog.se

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