NODE_ID_FROM_PARTS (Transact-SQL)
Applies to: SQL Server 2017 (14.x) and later Azure SQL Database Azure SQL Managed Instance
Returns the character representation (JSON) of the node ID for a given object ID and graph ID.
Syntax
NODE_ID_FROM_PARTS ( object_id, graph_id )
Arguments
object_id
An int representing the object ID for the node table.
graph_id
A bigint value for the graph ID for a node.
Return value
Returns an nvarchar(1000) character representation (JSON) of the node ID. The return value can be NULL if any of the supplied arguments are invalid.
Remarks
- The character representation (JSON) of the node ID returned by
NODE_ID_FROM_PARTS
is an implementation specific detail, and is subject to change. NODE_ID_FROM_PARTS
is the only supported way to construct a suitable character representation of the node ID.NODE_ID_FROM_PARTS
is useful for bulk inserting of data into a graph table, when the source data has a suitable natural or surrogate key with an integer data type.- The value returned from
NODE_ID_FROM_PARTS
can be used to populate the$node_id
column in a node table. It can also be used to populate the$from_id
/$to_id
columns in an edge table. - For
NODE_ID_FROM_PARTS
to return valid character representation (JSON) of a node ID, theobject_id
parameter must correspond to an existing node table. Thegraph_id
parameter can be any valid integer, but it need not exist in that node table. If any of these checks fail,NODE_ID_FROM_PARTS
returns NULL.
Examples
The following example uses the OPENROWSET Bulk Rowset Provider to retrieve the ID
and name
columns from a CSV file stored on an Azure Storage account. It then uses NODE_ID_FROM_PARTS
to create the appropriate character representation of $node_id
for eventual (bulk) insert into the Person
node table. This transformed data is then (bulk) inserted into the Person
node table.
INSERT INTO Person($node_id, ID, [name])
SELECT NODE_ID_FROM_PARTS(OBJECT_ID('Person'), ID) as node_id, ID, [name]
FROM OPENROWSET (BULK 'person_0_0.csv',
DATA_SOURCE = 'staging_data_source',
FORMATFILE = 'format-files/person.xml',
FORMATFILE_DATA_SOURCE = 'format_files_source',
FIRSTROW = 2) AS staging_data;
;