[AccessD] Importing XML into a database

John,

I don't have any code handy but you want to use the ReadXML method to
read the contents into a table.  You can simply pass ReadXML a filename
in one of its overloads.

Charlotte Foust 

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Subject: [AccessD] Importing XML into a database

I have found / written code in VB.Net to allow a class to write (and
read) it's data out to a text file on disk.  I use this ATM to log my
import process.  When I am done I have a log file per file imported.  I
will eventually be switching to a direct write to a data table but for
now I need to know if I can import these log files into a table.  The
XML produced by the code looks like the following (actual file written):

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<clsLogData xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <pTblName>AK</pTblName>
  <pStatus>Complete</pStatus>
  <pCommittedID>205453</pCommittedID>
 
<pFileSpec>\\Stonehenge\psm\Data\FirstAmerican\TaxRolls\AK.txt</pFileSpe
c>
  <pStartTime>2007-10-03T12:55:49.890375-04:00</pStartTime>
  <pStopTime>2007-10-03T12:57:15.49325-04:00</pStopTime>
  <pStartID>0</pStartID>
  <pStopID>205453</pStopID>
  <pMemo>90071218 : 10/3/2007 12:55:49 PM : Read Directory: TaxRolls
90071234 : 10/3/2007 12:55:49 PM : Loading CSVReader10/3/2007 12:55:49
PM
90071234 : 10/3/2007 12:55:49 PM : Read File:
\\Stonehenge\psm\Data\FirstAmerican\TaxRolls\AK.txt
90071250 : 10/3/2007 12:55:49 PM : File Loaded:
\\Stonehenge\psm\Data\FirstAmerican\TaxRolls\AK.txt
90071296 : 10/3/2007 12:55:49 PM : Bulk Copy: tblTaxRolls 90116640 :
10/3/2007 12:56:35 PM : Bulk Copy Finished: tblTaxRolls
90116656 : 10/3/2007 12:56:35 PM : RECORDS READ: 205453
90116656 : 10/3/2007 12:56:35 PM : RECORDS BULK COPIED: 205453
10/3/2007 12:56:35 PM : Copy Temp table AK_X to the permanent table
tblTaxRolls
10/3/2007 12:57:15 PM : Temp table copied AK_X to the permanent table
tblTaxRolls
10/3/2007 12:57:15 PM : DROPPED Temp table AK_X
90156765 : 10/3/2007 12:57:15 PM : Move to Archive:
\\Stonehenge\psm\Data\FirstAmerican\TaxRolls\Archive\AK.txt</pMemo>
</clsLogData>

Can SQL Server just read these files?  Does anyone have any VB.Net code
to read a file such as this and append the data to a table?

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting
www.ColbyConsulting.com 

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