StackOverflow Data Dump Importer. Forked from https://bitbucket.org/bitpusher/soddi/ after the original author passed away.

This app takes the Stack Exchange Data Dump XML files after you've downloaded them from here: https://archive.org/details/stackexchange

And loads them into a database. If you don't want to hassle with this, just grab the Stack Overflow database in Microsoft SQL Server format from here: https://www.brentozar.com/archive/2015/10/how-to-download-the-stack-overflow-database-via-bittorrent/

• Compile the latest dev branch yourself from source, or download the most recent official release: https://github.com/BrentOzarULTD/soddi/releases
• Create a folder to hold the extracted XML files (e.g. C:\TEMP)
• Extract files into a separate folder per StackExchange site (e.g. 122017 Stack Overflow). The MMYYYY format is important.
• Fire up the soddi.exe
• Select the extracted XML folder in the Source text box.
• Select the Sites you want to import
• Set up your connection string
• Adjust batch size as you see fit
• Click Import
• Depending on the size of the import, you may want to grab a sandwich