How to Import Data from NetCDF File into SQL Server

Similar to this answer to a previous question, and if you don't want the restrictions of pg_read_file() (in short: pg_read_file can't read files outside the database directory, and reads text in the current session's character encoding).

This function works for any path, but needs to be created as superuser:

create or replace function stack.bytea_import(p_path text, p_result out bytea) 
                   language plpgsql as $$
declare
  l_oid oid;
begin
  select lo_import(p_path) into l_oid;
  select lo_get(l_oid) INTO p_result;
  perform lo_unlink(l_oid);
end;$$;

lo_get was introduced in 9.4 so for older versions you would need:

create or replace function stack.bytea_import(p_path text, p_result out bytea) 
                   language plpgsql as $$
declare
  l_oid oid;
  r record;
begin
  p_result := '';
  select lo_import(p_path) into l_oid;
  for r in ( select data 
             from pg_largeobject 
             where loid = l_oid 
             order by pageno ) loop
    p_result = p_result || r.data;
  end loop;
  perform lo_unlink(l_oid);
end;$$;

then:

select convert_from(stack.bytea_import('/tmp/test.xml'), 'utf8')::xml;

You can use a variant of the technique described in Using merge..output to get mapping between source.id and target.id and by Adam Machanic in Dr. OUTPUT or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the MERGE.

You use merge and capture the generated ID with the XML fragment that belongs to that ID in a table variable and then use that table variable when adding rows to the child tables.

declare @C table
(
  CONSTRUCTION_ID int primary key,
  PROJECT xml
);

merge CONSTRUCTION as T
using (
      select T.X.value('(constructionName/text())[1]', 'varchar(30)') as CONSTRUCTIONNAME,
             T.X.value('(constructionType/text())[1]', 'varchar(30)') as CONSTRUCTIONTYPE,
             T.X.query('project') as PROJECT
      from @xml.nodes('/root/construction') as T(X)
      ) as S
on 0 = 1
when not matched by target then
  insert (CONSTRUCTIONNAME, CONSTRUCTIONTYPE) 
  values (S.CONSTRUCTIONNAME, S.CONSTRUCTIONTYPE)
output inserted.CONSTRUCTION_ID, S.PROJECT into @C;

declare @P table
(
  PROJECT_ID int primary key,
  BUSINESSPARTNERS XML
);

merge PROJECT as T
using (
      select C.CONSTRUCTION_ID,
             T.X.value('(projectname/text())[1]', 'varchar(30)') as PROJECTNAME,
             T.X.query('businesspartners') as BUSINESSPARTNERS
      from @C as C
        cross apply C.PROJECT.nodes('/project') as T(X)
      ) as S
on 0 = 1
when not matched by target then
  insert (CONSTRUCTION_ID, PROJECTNAME)
  values(S.CONSTRUCTION_ID, S.PROJECTNAME)
output inserted.PROJECT_ID, S.BUSINESSPARTNERS into @P;

insert into BUSINESSPARTNERS(PROJECT_ID, PARTNERNAME)
select P.PROJECT_ID,
       T.X.value('text()[1]', 'varchar(30)')
from @P as P
  cross apply P.BUSINESSPARTNERS.nodes('/businesspartners/partnername') as T(X);

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