Input XML data to existing sql table

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Hi there, I was wondering if anyone could help. Im pretty sure its a simple solution but I cant seem to get it working. I have a simple xml file, very simple.

XML

<ResultsDS>
  <Results>
    <Yesno_Vote>NO</Yesno_Vote>
    <PollPosition_1>person1</PollPosition_1>
    <PollPosition_2>person2</PollPosition_2>
    <PollPosition_3>person3</PollPosition_3>
    <PollPosition_4>person4</PollPosition_4>
    <PollPosition_5>person5</PollPosition_5>
  </Results>
</ResultsDS>

i would like to extract the data and put it into relevent columns in my existing sql table.
the table has 7 columns, the 6 named elements in the xml file and an identity column.
and i would essentially like the value of the <YesNo_Vote> element to be inserted into the YesNo_Vote column of my sql table. and so on and so forth.
any help would be much appreciated.
thanks in advance.

Posted 4-Dec-12 7:31am

sarahmccarthy

Updated 4-Dec-12 7:47am

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Teenustar · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-04T09:33:00

You can write a Stored Procedure which can do this.

SQL

DECLARE @iDoc INT /* Stores a pointer to the XML document */
DECLARE @XML VARCHAR(MAX) /* Stores the content of the XML */ 
set @XML = '<ResultsDS>
  <Results>
    <Yesno_Vote>NO</Yesno_Vote>
    <PollPosition_1>person1</PollPosition_1>
    <PollPosition_2>person2</PollPosition_2>
    <PollPosition_3>person3</PollPosition_3>
    <PollPosition_4>person4</PollPosition_4>
    <PollPosition_5>person5</PollPosition_5>
  </Results>
</ResultsDS>'
EXEC sp_xml_preparedocument @iDoc OUTPUT, @XML
INSERT INTO YourTable
SELECT *
FROM OPENXML(@iDoc,'/ResultsDS/Results',2)
WITH (Yesno_Vote varchar(50)  'Yesno_Vote',
PollPosition_1 varchar(50)  'PollPosition_1',
PollPosition_2 varchar(50)  'PollPosition_2',
PollPosition_3 varchar(50)  'PollPosition_3',
PollPosition_4 varchar(50)  'PollPosition_4',
PollPosition_5 varchar(50)  'PollPosition_5'
)
EXEC sp_xml_removedocument @iDoc

I assumed the data types to be varchar(50), change them according to your table's properties.