Hello, group!
I've been given a task that I think I'm overcomplicating - or, maybe my manager is.
It's an xml file that he wants converted to a SQL table and the process needs to be handled via SSIS.
I've never worked with xml, so I did a search on the process and got a few helpful sites, but they looked awfully complex. But, I've not delved into them deeply, yet, so I may be confusing completeness with complexity.
Anyway, I pulled up the xml file in a browser window and saw that one of the top lines - the second line, in fact - says;
<?mso-application progid="Excel.Sheet"?>
Seeing "Excel" in there, I thought I'd see what Excel would do with it. So, I powered up Excel, clicked open, browsed to this xml file and clicked Open.
It popped right up with a standard Excel sheet containing all the data. No import formatting like you have when opening, say, a csv, or anything.
So, my question is, am I just going to use a simple old procedure to import an Excel file to import this xml file?
Is this not as complex as I'm thinking it is?
Thanx!