Extracting XML data from SQL 2000 to SQL 2005 database table.

Hi,

We need to extract data from XML that is contained in TEXT columns in Sql Server 2000 database table. Can this be done easily with SSIS (NB we cannot use schemas easily with our data)? Please kindly provide us the solution in order to resolve this problem.

Thanks

VDeevi wrote:

Hi,

We need to extract data from XML that is contained in TEXT columns in Sql Server 2000 database table. Can this be done easily with SSIS (NB we cannot use schemas easily with our data)? Please kindly provide us the solution in order to resolve this problem.

Thanks

What methods have you tried so far and why do they fail?

-Jamie|||Hi Jamie,

Thanks for your reply, We tried with OPENXML, sp_xml_prepareddocument etc. but they are all round about things we want to know is there any simple technique in SSIS in order to retrieve the data from XML stored in SQL Server 2000 TEXT field.

Thanks,|||I've just had a go at this...

When you select the data a TEXT field appears in the SSIS pipeline as a DT_TEXT. To insert it into a XML field use a derived column transform to convert it to DT_NTEXT.
If you don't like DT_NTEXTs in your pipeline then convert it to DT_WSTR and then to DT_STR which can also be inserted into an XML field.

So yes, SSIS can do this very very well.

-Jamie