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Chapter 11: Writing Scripts and Batches
This should take you down to a blank line (with no prompt of any kind), where you can enter in this:
SELECT * FROM AdventureWorks2008.Production.Location
Then press F6 and Return (this ends the creation of our text file). You should get back a message like:
1 file(s) copied.
Now let’s retry our earlier query using a script file this time. The command line at the prompt has only a
slight change to it:
C:\>sqlcmd -Usa -Pmypass -i testsql.sql
This should get us exactly the same results as we had when we ran the query using -Q. The major difference
is, of course, that we took the command from a file. The file could have had hundreds — if not
thousands — of different commands in it.
Try It Out Generating a Text File with sqlcmd
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As a final example of sqlcmd, let’s utilize it to generate a text file that we might import into another
application for analysis (Excel for example).
Back in Chapter 10, we created a view that listed yesterday’s orders for us. First, we’re going to take the
core query of that view, and stick it into a text file:
C:\copy con YesterdaysOrders.sql
This should again take you down to a blank line (with no prompt of any kind), where you can enter this:
USE AdventureWorks2008
SELECT sc.AccountNumber,
soh.SalesOrderID,
soh.OrderDate,
sod.ProductID,
pp.Name,
sod.OrderQty,
sod.UnitPrice,
sod.UnitPriceDiscount * sod.UnitPrice * sod.OrderQty AS TotalDiscount,
sod.LineTotal
FROM Sales.Customer AS sc
INNER JOIN Sales.SalesOrderHeader AS soh
ON sc.CustomerID = soh.CustomerID
INNER JOIN Sales.SalesOrderDetail AS sod
ON soh.SalesOrderID = sod.SalesOrderID
INNER JOIN Production.Product AS pp
ON sod.ProductID = pp.ProductID
WHERE CAST(soh.OrderDate AS Date) =
CAST(DATEADD(day,-1,GETDATE()) AS Date)
Again press F6 and press Enter to tell Windows to save the file for you.