Sql-server – SQL Server BPA 2008R2

sql serversql-server-2008-r2

I have been using SQL Server BPA for getting good information from Microsoft. I was using its 2005 version in which I used to export the results in CSV format but recently I got two new servers which has got SQL Server 2008 R2 installed on it and I know I can't run BPA 2005 on these, so chose the R2 version of it, but it doesn't have an option to save the report on CSV format, only XML, I have tried using Excel to convert it into CSV but no use, even-though it display the details but can't narrow down the results any idea of converting the results to CSV format?

Best Answer

While PowerShell is high on my list of things to learn I don't know much about it right now and I needed a csv quick, so I wrote a simple query in T-SQL to get the data I needed out of the XML in a tabular format and then just copied that into excel and saved it.

-- get XML from file
DECLARE @xml XML;
SELECT 
    @xml = CAST(A.[BulkColumn] AS XML)
FROM OPENROWSET(BULK 'C:\bpa_results.xml', SINGLE_BLOB) A;

-- query XML data
WITH XMLNAMESPACES ('http://schemas.microsoft.com/powershell/2004/04' as x)
SELECT
    S.*
FROM @xml.nodes('x:Objs/x:Obj') A ([obj]) -- "root" objects
CROSS APPLY A.[obj].nodes('x:LST/x:Obj') B ([obj]) -- findings objects
CROSS APPLY 
    (
        SELECT 
            A.[obj].value('@RefId', 'NVARCHAR(500)') [root_obj_RefId],
            B.[obj].value('@RefId', 'NVARCHAR(500)') [findings_obj_RefId],
            B.[obj].value('x:Props[1]/x:S[@N="ResultNumber"][1]', 'NVARCHAR(500)') [ResultNumber],
            B.[obj].value('x:Props[1]/x:S[@N="ResultId"][1]', 'NVARCHAR(500)') [ResultId],
            B.[obj].value('x:Props[1]/x:S[@N="ModelId"][1]', 'NVARCHAR(500)') [ModelId],
            B.[obj].value('x:Props[1]/x:S[@N="SubModelId"][1]', 'NVARCHAR(500)') [SubModelId],
            B.[obj].value('x:Props[1]/x:S[@N="RuleId"][1]', 'NVARCHAR(500)') [RuleId],
            B.[obj].value('x:Props[1]/x:S[@N="ComputerName"][1]', 'NVARCHAR(500)') [ComputerName],
            B.[obj].value('x:Props[1]/x:S[@N="Context"][1]', 'NVARCHAR(500)') [Context],
            B.[obj].value('x:Props[1]/x:S[@N="Source"][1]', 'NVARCHAR(500)') [Source],
            B.[obj].value('x:Props[1]/x:S[@N="Severity"][1]', 'NVARCHAR(500)') [Severity],
            B.[obj].value('x:Props[1]/x:S[@N="NeutralSeverity"][1]', 'NVARCHAR(500)') [NeutralSeverity],
            B.[obj].value('x:Props[1]/x:S[@N="Category"][1]', 'NVARCHAR(500)') [Category],
            B.[obj].value('x:Props[1]/x:S[@N="Title"][1]', 'NVARCHAR(500)') [Title],
            B.[obj].value('x:Props[1]/x:S[@N="Problem"][1]', 'NVARCHAR(500)') [Problem],
            B.[obj].value('x:Props[1]/x:S[@N="Impact"][1]', 'NVARCHAR(500)') [Impact],
            B.[obj].value('x:Props[1]/x:S[@N="Resolution"][1]', 'NVARCHAR(500)') [Resolution],
            B.[obj].value('x:Props[1]/x:S[@N="Compliance"][1]', 'NVARCHAR(500)') [Compliance],
            B.[obj].value('x:Props[1]/x:S[@N="Help"][1]', 'NVARCHAR(500)') [Help],
            B.[obj].value('x:Props[1]/x:S[@N="Excluded"][1]', 'NVARCHAR(500)') [Excluded]
    ) S
WHERE   S.[ResultNumber] IS NOT NULL
    AND S.[Severity] != 'Information';
Related Question