Powershell: Specify file path as variable - sql

Question

I am running the following SQL query through a powershell script and need to run the script multiple times against different files. So what I am trying to figure out is how to specify a file path as a variable when I run the script?
update [$Db_name].[dbo].[$BatchTable]
set [$Db_name].[dbo].[$BatchTable].Wave = 'Wave1.1'
from [$Db_name].[dbo].[$BatchTable]
inner join OPENROWSET(BULK 'FilePath\file.csv',
FORMATFILE= 'E:\import.xml') AS a
on ([$Db_name].[dbo].[$BatchTable].Name= a.Name) and
([$Db_name].[dbo].[$BatchTable].Domain = a.Domain)
The 'FilePath\file.csv' is the file path I need to define as a variable so that my code would instead look like this:
inner join OPENROWSET(BULK '$INPUTFILEPATH',
FORMATFILE= 'E:\import.xml') AS a
Any help or potentially better methods to accomplish this would help very much.
From the command like I want to be able to run the script like this:
CMD: updatescript.ps1 $INPUTFILEPATH = C:\Documents\myfile.csv
Again, I'm not sure this is the best way to go about this?

Answer 1

You're nearly there.
You will need to add a parameter block at the very start of your script e.g.
Param(
[Parameter(Mandatory=$true)]
[ValidateScript({Test-Path $_ -PathType 'leaf'})]
[string] $InputFilePath
)
This creates a mandatory (not optional) string parameter, called InputFilePath, and the ValidateScript is code used to validate the parameter, in this case checking the file exists using the Test-Path cmdlet and pathtype of leaf (if checking existence of a directory use 'container').
When running your script use the syntax below:
updatescript.ps1 -INPUTFILEPATH "C:\Documents\myfile.csv"
and in the script use the variable as the path exactly as in your question:
inner join OPENROWSET(BULK '$INPUTFILEPATH',
FORMATFILE= 'E:\import.xml') AS a
NOTE: in powershell when using parameters when running a script you only need to use the least amount of characters that uniquely identify that parameter from all the others in your param block - in this case -I works just as well as -InputFilePath.

Answer 2

You can pass command line parameters to the powershell script using param.
Example:
param(
[string]$INPUTFILEPATH
)
And then call the script as follows:
updatescript.ps1 -INPUTFILEPATH C:\Documents\myfile.csv
More details about cmd line parameters can be found here