Please help convert MSSQL Stored Procedure to Oracle PL/SQL

Question

Hi there to all,
this be my first post to these forums. I have already posted this question on a microsoft msdn forum, until someone advised that I ask my question here - dunno why I didnt think of that! ?:|
Im working with an Oracle 10g Database from an ASP.NET 2.0 application, and want to know if it Oracle supports OPENXML (rhetorical question I fear!). The reason I ask is because I want to create an Oracle Stored Procedure that will accept an XML string as an input parameter, prepare it, select from it, and then insert it into an Oracle table.
I have done this successfully in SQL server using the following as an example:
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[Employee_INSERT]
bq. @INSERTRECORD XML
AS
BEGIN
bq. DECLARE @XDOC INT; \\ EXEC sp_xml_preparedocument @XDOC OUTPUT, @INSERTRECORD; \\ INSERT INTO [dbo].[REC_Employees] (
bq. bq. [EMPTITLE], \\ [EMPFNAME], \\ [EMPLNAME], \\ [EMPDEPTID], \\ [EMPBEGINDATE], \\ [EMPACTIVE], \\ [EMPDATEADDED]
bq. )
bq. SELECT
bq. bq. [EMPTITLE] = Title, \\ [EMPFNAME] = Firstname, \\ [EMPLNAME] = LastName, \\ [EMPDEPTID] = DepartmentID, \\ [EMPBEGINDATE] = StartDate, \\ [EMPACTIVE] = IsActive, \\ [EMPDATEADDED] = GETUTCDATE()
bq. FROM
bq. bq. OPENXML(@XDOC, '/EMPREC/Table', 2) \\ WITH (
bq. bq. Title VARCHAR(10), \\ FirstName VARCHAR(50), \\ LastName VARCHAR(50), \\ DepartmentID INT, \\ StartDate DATETIME, \\ IsActive BIT
bq. bq. );
bq. EXEC sp_xml_removedocument @XDOC;
END
I would sincerely appreciate any help in this regard!
PS - Please excuse the formatting!
Much Thanks!
regards
shalan

Answer 1

Assuming your table is named DESTINATION
Name                                      Null?    Type
TITLE                                              VARCHAR2(10)
FIRSTNAME                                          VARCHAR2(50)
LASTNAME                                           VARCHAR2(50)
DEPARTMENT                                         NUMBER
STARTDATE                                          DATE
ISACTIVE                                           NUMBERYou can use a procedure like:
create or replace
procedure test (p_xml in xmltype)
is
begin
  insert into destination
  select title
       , firstname
       , lastname
       , department
       , to_date (startdate, 'yyyy-dd-mm hh24:mi:ss') startdate
       , isactive
    from (xmltable ('/EMPREC/Table' passing p_xml
                   columns title varchar2(5) path 'Title'
                         , firstname varchar2(10) path 'FirstName'
                         , lastname varchar2(10) path 'LastName'
                         , department number path 'Department'
                         , startdate varchar2(20) path 'StartDate'
                         , isactive number path 'IsActive'
                  ) temp
end test;to create records in the table
Removed a unnecessary SELECT FROM DUAL...
Edited by: Alex Nuijten on Jan 19, 2009 2:24 PM