Import ‘xml’ into Sql Server

Try this:

DECLARE @XML XML = '<EventSchedule>
    <Event Uid="2" Type="Main Event">
        <IsFixed>True</IsFixed>
        <EventKind>MainEvent</EventKind>
        <Fields>
            <Parameter Name="Type" Value="TV_Show"/>
            <Parameter Name="Name" Value="The Muppets"/>
            <Parameter Name="Duration" Value="00:30:00"/>
        </Fields>
    </Event>
    <Event Uid="3" Type="Secondary Event">
        <IsFixed>True</IsFixed>
        <EventKind>SecondaryEvent</EventKind>
        <Fields>
            <Parameter Name="Type" Value="TV_Show"/>
            <Parameter Name="Name" Value="The Muppets II"/>
            <Parameter Name="Duration" Value="00:30:00"/>
        </Fields>
    </Event>
</EventSchedule>'

SELECT
    EventUID = Events.value('@Uid', 'int'),
    EventType = Events.value('@Type', 'varchar(20)'),
    EventIsFixed =Events.value('(IsFixed)[1]', 'varchar(20)'),
    EventKind =Events.value('(EventKind)[1]', 'varchar(20)')
FROM
 @XML.nodes('/EventSchedule/Event') AS XTbl(Events)

Gives me an output of:

And of course, you can easily do an

INSERT INTO dbo.YourTable(EventUID, EventType, EventIsFixed, EventKind)
   SELECT 
         ......

to insert that data into a relational table.

Update: assuming you have your XML in files – you can use this code to load the XML file into an XML variable in SQL Server:

DECLARE @XmlFile XML

SELECT @XmlFile = BulkColumn
FROM  OPENROWSET(BULK 'path-to-your-XML-file', SINGLE_BLOB) x;

and then use the above code snippet to parse the XML.

Update #2: if you need the parameters, too – use this XQuery statement:

SELECT
    EventUID = Events.value('@Uid', 'int'),
    EventType = Events.value('@Type', 'varchar(20)'),
    EventIsFixed = Events.value('(IsFixed)[1]', 'varchar(20)'),
    EventKind = Events.value('(EventKind)[1]', 'varchar(20)'),
    ParameterType = Events.value('(Fields/Parameter[@Name="Type"]/@Value)[1]', 'varchar(20)'),
    ParameterName = Events.value('(Fields/Parameter[@Name="Name"]/@Value)[1]', 'varchar(20)'),
    ParameterDuration = Events.value('(Fields/Parameter[@Name="Duration"]/@Value)[1]', 'varchar(20)')
FROM
    @XML.nodes('/EventSchedule/Event') AS XTbl(Events)

Results in: