Parsing nested XML into SQL table

Question

What would be the right way to parse the following XML block into SQL Server table according to desired layout (below)? Is it possible to do it with a single SELECT statemen

Answer 1

Use the OPENXML function. It is a rowset provider (it returns the set of rows parsed from the XML) and thus can be utilized in SELECT or INSERT like:

INSERT INTO table SELECT * FROM OPENXML(source, rowpattern, flags)

Please see the first example in the documentation link for clarity.