Daily Archives: Sep 18, 2014

Read XML Data as a table in SQL Server 1

 in SQL Server  tagged reading xml data / xml by

Sometimes we need bulk data to be sent to SQL Server in procedure parameter and inside procedure we perform some insert or update or delete or even another select with joins etc. And in such type of scenarios, we prefer to send these bulk data in XML format to SQL Server. So in this post we will learn, how we can read xml data in a table. Proceeding with “Read XML data as a table”,  first of all we will create a demo XML variable to perform the select operation on it.

Now we have to read this data in a table to be used further, To get that first have a look on the below select statement;

This select statement will output as below;

Now we can put this data inside any temporary or permanent staging area of SQL Server.

Add Select * Into style inside the above code … More

Nested Loop, Merge and Hash Joins in SQL Server

 in Performance Tuning / SQL Server  tagged hash join / internal joins / merge join / nested loop join / physical joins by

In this article, i will introduce the internal join techniques, which sql server uses to perform various joins internally also known as Nested Loop, Merge and Hash Joins. These types are not directly exposed to us but we can use them as a query hint. These are also known as physical joins in SQL Server. So lets explore this topic  together “Nested Loop, Merge and Hash Joins in SQL Server”.

In our queries, simply we write as below;

From AdventureWorks2012 Database:

Now its a job of sql server to create an appropriate plan for the query, execute it and return the result set to the caller. SQL Server has multiple components to perform this series of tasks including query parsing, creating query tree, creating binary plan and after all executing the query and returning the result set.

The actual execution of the query is handled by storage engine component of … More