Importing Large XML file into SQL 2.5Gb

Question

Hi I am trying to import a large XML file into a table on my sql server (2014)

I have used the code below for smaller files and thought it would be ok as this is a o

Answer 1

Updated: Much faster. I did some research, and while the above post I made shows one (slow) method, I was able to find one that works even faster - for me it does. I put this as a new answer due to the complete difference from my previous post.

LOAD XML LOCAL INFILE 'path/to/file.xml' INTO TABLE tablename ROWS IDENTIFIED BY ''

Example

    
       john doe
          bla bla bla......
    

Then, MYSQL command would be:

LOAD XML LOCAL INFILE 'path/to/students.xml' INTO TABLE tablename ROWS IDENTIFIED BY ''

rows identified must have single quote and angle brackets. when I switched to this method, I went from 12min +/- to 30 seconds!! +/-

tips that worked for me. was use the DELETE FROM tablename otherwise it will just append to your db.

Ref: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/load-xml.html