How to insert large xml data into database tables.

Hi all,
iam new to xml. i want to insert data in xml file to my database tables.but the xml file size is very large. performance is also one of the issue. can anybody please tell me the procedure to take xml file from the server and insert into my database tables.
Thanks in advance

Unfortunately posting very generic questions like this in the forum tends not to be very productive for you, me or the other people who read the forum. It really helps everyone if you take a little time to review existing posts and their answers before starting new threads which replicate subjects that have already been discussed extensively in previous threads. This allows you to ask more sensible questions (eg, I'm using this approach and encountering this problem) rather than extremely generic questions that you can answer yourself by spending a little time reviewing existings posts or using the forum's search feature.
Also in future your might want to try being a little more specific before posting questions
Eg Define "very large". I know of customers who thing very large is 100K, and customers who think 4G is medium. I cannot tell from your post what size your files are.
What is the content of the file. Is it going to be loaded into a single record, or a a single table, or will it need to be loaded into multiple records in a single table or multiple records in multiple tables ?
Do you really need to load the data into exsiting relational tables or could your application work with relational views of the XML Content.
Finally which release of the database are you working with.
Define performance. Is it reasonable to expect to process this kind of document on this machine (Make, memory, #number of CPUs, CPU Speed, number of discs) in this period of time.
WRT to your original question. If you take a few minutes to search this forum you will find a very large number of threads with very similar titles to yours. These theads document a number of different approaches that can be used to solve this problem.
I suggest you start by looking for threads that cover topics like DBMS_XMLSTORE, XMLTable(), Relational Views of XML content, loading XML content in relational tables.

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In my project I need to insert very large XML data into xmltype column.
My table:
CREATE TABLE TransDetailstblCLOB ( id number, data_xml XMLType) XmlType data_xml STORE AS CLOB;
I am using JDBC approach to insert values. It works fine for data less than 4000 bytes when using preparedStatement.setString(1, xmlData). As I have to insert large Xml data >4000 bytes I am now using preparedStatement.setClob() methods.
My code works fine for table which has column declared as CLOB expicitly. But for TransDetailstblCLOB where the column is declared as XMLTYPE and storage option as CLOB I am getting the error : "ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column".
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I dont understand its stated here that it is a hidden CLOB column then why not I use setClob()? It worked fine for pure CLOB column (another table) then Why is it giving such error for XMLTYPE table?
I am struck up with this since 3 days. Can anyone help me please?
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int length = -1;
int wrote = 0;
int chunkSize = temporaryClob.getChunkSize();
chunkSize=xmlData.length();
byte[] buf = new byte[chunkSize];
while ((length = in.read(buf)) != -1) {
out.write(buf, 0, length);
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temporaryClob.setBytes(buf);
log.debug("Wrote lenght"+wrote);
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try this, in adodb works:
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l_nodelist dbms_xmldom.DOMNodeList;
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                         <ship-city>test</ship-city>
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                         <ship-country-code>US</ship-country-code>
<ship-phone1>0040726335068</ship-phone1>
<ship-email>[email protected]</ship-email>
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<order-sub-total>19.0</order-sub-total>
<order-discount>0.0</order-discount>
<order-tax1>0.0</order-tax1>
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<order-shipment-charge>18.0</order-shipment-charge>
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<ship-quantity>1.0</ship-quantity>
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<serial-list>
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<line-discount>0.0</line-discount>
<line-tax1>0.0</line-tax1>
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Remove the Try-Catch as this hides any errors that may be raised. It is unwise to use a Try-Catch this way, always when using a Try-Catch write code that alerts or writes to a log file. Also, there is no need for invoke Close method for the connection object,
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Hi,
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The problem is that you need to pass avalid URL , Document...
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<agent>
<name>Nancy Palmer</name>
<email>[email protected]</email>
<agentid>MLSL:00525350</agentid>
<officeid>58</officeid>
<website>http://www.nancypalmer.com</website>
<photo>https://sites.e-agents.com/Uploads/68/41/6841/Agents/agent_8418_NANCY_PALMER_COLOR_HEAD_SHOT_HIGH_QUALITY_2011.jpg</photo>
<phone_direct>6504344313</phone_direct>
<phone_cell>6504920200</phone_cell>
<mod_time>2012-08-31T05:15:06.933</mod_time>
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<agent>
<name>Genella Williamson</name>
<email>[email protected]</email>
<agentid>MLSL:00755754</agentid>
<officeid>58</officeid>
<website>http://www.apr.com/genella</website>
<photo>https://sites.e-agents.com/Uploads/68/41/6841/Agents/agent_8426_genella.jpg</photo>
<phone_direct>6504344319</phone_direct>
<phone_cell>6507870839</phone_cell>
<mod_time>2010-10-30T15:15:07.603</mod_time>
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<agent>
<name>Diana Langley</name>
<email>[email protected]</email>
<agentid>MLSL:01256202,SFAR:805608</agentid>
<officeid>50</officeid>
<website>http://www.apr.com/DLangley</website>
<photo>https://sites.e-agents.com/Uploads/68/41/6841/Agents/agent_7848_dlangley.jpg</photo>
<phone_direct/>
<phone_cell/>
<mod_time>2011-06-06T05:15:06.587</mod_time>
</agent>
</agents>
I want to load it to the following table
SQL> desc apr_agent
Name Null? Type
NAME VARCHAR2(100)
EMAIL VARCHAR2(100)
OFFICEID VARCHAR2(50)
WEBSITE VARCHAR2(1000)
PHOTO VARCHAR2(1000)
PHONE_DIRECT VARCHAR2(100)
PHONE_CELL VARCHAR2(100)
MOD_DATE VARCHAR2(100)
SQL>
So I created a directory
create or replace directory APR_STG as '/opt/smarteragent/procdata/APR';
and I created the following insert statement
INSERT INTO apr_agent
(NAME, email, officeid, website, photo, phone_direct, phone_cell, mod_date)
WITH T AS (SELECT XMLTYPE(BFILENAME('APR_STG','agents.xml'), NLS_CHARSET_ID('AL32UTF8')) xmlcol FROM dual)
SELECT EXTRACTVALUE(VALUE(x),'/ROW/name') NAME,
EXTRACTVALUE(VALUE(x),'/ROW/email') email,
EXTRACTVALUE(VALUE(x),'ROW/officeid') officeid,
EXTRACTVALUE(VALUE(x),'ROW/website') website,
EXTRACTVALUE(VALUE(x),'ROW/photo') photo,
EXTRACTVALUE(VALUE(x),'ROW/phone_direct') phone_direct,
EXTRACTVALUE(VALUE(x),'ROW/phone_cell') phone_cell,
EXTRACTVALUE(VALUE(x),'ROW/mod_time') mod_date
FROM T,TABLE(XMLSEQUENCE(EXTRACT(T.xmlcol,'/ROWSET/ROW'))) x;
I am currently getting now rows inserted. Not sure why?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Well, if you were to run the SELECT statement alone (from WITH on down), you would see that it is returning 0 rows. After some head-scratching and searching you would come to realize it is because your XPaths are not finding any data in the XML. In your XPaths, you are looking for a root node of ROWSET with a child of ROW. In the XML, the root node is agents and the child is agent. Assuming you are on 10.2 or later, your SELECT statement itself could be written as
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If you are on 11g (any of them), then you have an option to improve performance over 10.2 and earlier versions. You simply create a table, it could even be a Global Temporary Table that looks something like
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