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Scraping And Importing Web Data

Jon Morisi shows how to scrape a website and load the result into a SQL Server table:

Next save this as a csv file.

Now jump into SQL Server Management Studio, drill down to your database (you may want to create a new, empty database for your snarfing), right-click and start the Import and Export wizard, via “Import Data”:

This is the one-off solution.  If you need to do it regularly, read up on creating scrapers and use Integration Services to load.