I save stored procedure code as files and then execute them in several different databases. I am trying to concatenate multiple files (100's). Every utility I use seems to create some special characters in the file that cause an error when i execute the script in sql.
Currently, i used
type *.sql > script.sql
in DOS. I am getting the following error in many places.
Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Line 1
Incorrect syntax near ''.
How can I find this character so I can do a find/replace? Thanks!
I do something very similar. Here's the text from batch file __QuickConcatenate_SQL.bat that will copy all *.sql files in that same folder into a new file:
REM Concatenate all .sql files into a single file
#ECHO OFF
CLS
COPY *.sql __ConcatenatedSQLScripts.sql /b
ECHO.
PAUSE
Note that "/b" parameter. I wrote this a long time ago, I recall including it to prevent the addition of oddball characters--CR, LF, EOF, something like that. (I never could figure out how to control the order that procedures were copied...)
Note also that this only works if the last line in every file is GO, followed by CR+LF (e.g. type "GO" and hit enter in SSMS).
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I'm trying to write some vba code that sends a line of code to the command prompt and executes it. I have that part down, but I need help getting the actual code to work.
I want to list all of the files in a specific folder that are the .doc file extension, but I want to exclude the first three characters of the filename that gets printed to my output text file. (Note: I'm using vba because this is one of several different commands I'd like to get into a single vba macro, and I cannot use batch files b/c they are blocked on my system so I'd like to work directly with the command prompt)
The following code works and gives me the file names without the file extension (ie. ABC201704.doc will return as ABC201704)
*%comspec% /c for %i in (C:\Test\ABC*.doc) do #echo %~ni >> C:\Test\Output.txt*
However, I don't know how to modify this so that it doesn't include the first 3 characters (ie. I'd like it to return 201704 instead of ABC201704).
Any help would be greatly appreciated! I tried using the following link, but I couldn't figure out how to get that to work for my situation.
Not tested:
#echo off
setlocal enableDelayedExpansion
for %%a in ("C:\Test\ABC*.doc") do (
set docname=%%~nxa
echo !docname:~3!
)
In command prompt:
cmd /v:on /c "for %a in ("C:\Test\ABC*.doc") do set docname=%~nxa & echo !docname:~3!"
I'm having trouble with a kinda specific problem.
The monitoring software (used for robots in the manufacturing halls) used by the company i am working for, generates a log file (.sdat) every 15 minutes. The content of a log file looks like this:
The syntax: Time;machine;status
13:53:23;KP85;ms:9999
13:53:49;KP85;ms:3
13:54:54;KP85;ms:4
14:06:04;KP85;ms:9999
13:51:38;Robot1;ms:9999
etc...
I've managed to concatenate all the log files into one big file, including the filename at the start of each new row, like this:
The syntax: Filename:Time;Machine;Status
01-03-2016-00-20.sdat:0:07:40;KP65;ms:3
01-03-2016-00-20.sdat:0:09:09;KP65;ms:4
01-03-2016-00-20.sdat:0:09:11;KP65;ms:3
01-03-2016-00-20.sdat:0:09:13;KP65;ms:4
etc..
The reason I did this is because i need the time as well as the date(which is included in the filename) a certain status for a machine has been logged. However, if i import this into SQL management studio, it recognizes 3 columns instead of 4, because the filename and first column(time) are separated by a ':' instead of a ';'. I tried solving it with an SQL Query, separating the date and time with a LEFT() and RIGHT(), but guess what: the time field format changes when the time switches from 9:59:59 to 10:00:00, creating an extra character for the time field (so the data in the column would look like this ':9:59:59', which isn't a valid time field). Perhaps it could be done with SQL but it just seems to me like it would take too much complexity in the SQL code for such a small problem.
So at this point, i thought it would be better to tackle this problem early on; within the batch file which generates the large file, so Management Studio does recognize 4 instead of 3 columns. This is how my .bat file looks like at the moment:
#echo off
findstr "^" *.sdat >output.txt
What do i have to do to get this right?
Thanks in advance,
Mike Sohns
#echo off
(for %%f in (*.sdat) do (
for /f "delims=" %%a in (%%f) do #echo %%f;%%a
))>output.txt
NOTE: this will swallow empty lines, but I think in your case that's not a problem. If yes, the code can be adapted.
Given that all the log files you are concatenating have the sdat extension, you have to replace sdat: for sdat; in order to have a ; separated CSV.
To achieve this, you can use the batch script in this other answer(How to replace substrings in windows batch file), that replaces substrings in a text file using a batch script.
I am trying to copy a file, export.txt from one directory to another within a .mshs script. I currently have:
shell copy 'E:\RPTG\Export.txt' 'E:\FCST\';
I'm getting an error that says "end of file breaks the statement."
Is there a command to copy a file with .mshs?
Thanks!
Typically you would perform the copy from a batch file itself. For example, your batch file would do the copy, run a MaxL script, and then do other things. That said, you can run shell commands from within MaxL if you need to (I don't usually recommend it though). In this case, you need to pass the whole statement to the shell command. Your statement should work if you write it like this instead:
shell "copy 'E:\RPTG\Export.txt' 'E:\FCST\'";
Note that I have enclosed your command in double quotes. There are some nuances to using double quotes and single quotes at the same time, but in this case you should be okay.
Sorry not much experience with batch files hence help needed please! ;-)
I'm working in a DOS box on a Windows 7 64 bit system.
I want to run an application as a batch file, but reading the information it needs from a text file which can be updated/amended regularly.
The syntax of the basic application is:
appname "variable" (the variable MUST be enclosed in quotes)
Successive variables can be concatenated to the following single line format:
appname "var1" "var2" "var3" "var4" ... etc
So I've created a batch file containing the above. However, this is unweildy when it comes to updating. Sometimes I omit the delimiting quotes which creates problems in the execution of the batch file.
It seems to me that from an updating/amending point it would be easier to set up a text file, say text.txt which would contain the following information:
"var1"
"var2"
"var3"
"var4"
etc. on successive lines.
This would make it easier for me to update and also to ensure I don't omit the delimiting quotes.
The batch file would get the application to "read" the text file, execute the first variable, then the second etc all the way through to the end. But I'm not sure if this is possible and if so, how to get the batch file to read successive lines in the text file and use those variables.
As I said earlier, I've not much experience with batch files and don't have a clue how to do this! :-(
Help please, thanks
Alan
Like this :
#echo off
set $textFile="test.txt"
for /f "delims=" %%a in ('type %$textFile%') do appname.exe %%a
#ECHO OFF
SETLOCAL ENABLEDELAYEDEXPANSION
SET "batchline=appname"
FOR /f "delims=" %%a IN (q25193799.txt) DO SET "batchline=!batchline! "%%~a""
ECHO(%batchline%
GOTO :EOF
I used a file named q25193799.txt containing your data for my testing.
The application line is merely echoed for verification. Remove the ECHO( after verification to execute your application.
The data in the file need not have "enclosing quotes".
Thanks to both responses, both different but good in their own way. I use a few different instances and I've decided to use the first response for the longer lists and the second one for shorter lists (that way I can check see if something is going wrong, because I might have missed the second delimiting quote in the text file.
Superb, thanks to you both.
I have a folder into which a number of MSQL scripts get dropped into after each weekly sprint. For example, 10 scripts were placed into the folder today. I had to then open each script individually and run it against the applicable database. The database that it needs to be run against is in the name of the file.
e.g. [2] [CRMdata]UpdateProc.sql
The [2] represents the sequence in which it is run, so script [1] needs to be run before it.
[CRMdata] is the database I have to run it against.
This process is very tiresome, especially if there are 50 scripts to run sequentially.
I was wondering if there was an easier way to do this?
Perhpas a .bat file, which reads the filename, and executes the scripts sequentially based on the script number, as well as executing it against the database specified in the file name.
Any help is much appreciated.
Thanks.
First, when you need to run things, consider using SQL Server Job Agent. This is a good way to schedule simple things.
For a task like this, I would recommend PowerShell in combination with "sqlcmd". This command is actually the answer to your question, since it will run scripts from the command line.
However, go a step further. Schedule a job that runs once per week (or whenever you want it run). Have it consist of one step, a PowerShell script. This can then loop through all the scripts in the directory, extract the file name from the name, and run the script using sqlcmd. Along the way, also log what you are doing in a table so you can spot errors.
I don't know anything about executing SQL with MSQL. You will have to work out how to run each script against the proper database using whatever command-line utility is provided for MSQL.
I can help you with a batch file that will sort the SQL files in the correct sequence order, and parse out the name of the database.
The job is much easier in batch if the sequence numbers are zero prefixed to be a constant width. I'm assuming it is OK to rename the files, so that is what this solution does.
I also assumed you will never have more than 999 files to process. The code can easily be modified to handle more.
Some changes will have to be made if any file names contain the ! character because delayed expansion will corrupt the expansion of the FOR variables. But that is an unlikely problem.
#echo off
setlocal enableDelayedExpansion
:: Change the definition to point to the folder that contains the scripts
set "folder=sqlCodeFolder"
:: The mask will only match the pattern that you indicated in your question
set "mask=[*] [*]*.sql"
:: Rename the .sql files so that the sequence numbers are zero prefixed
:: to width of 3. This enables the default alpha sort of the directory to be
:: in the proper sequence
for /f "tokens=1* delims=[]" %%A in ('dir /b "%folder%\%mask%"') do (
set seq=00%%A
ren "%folder%\[%%A]%%B" "[!seq:~-3!]%%B"
)
::Process the renamed files in order
for %%F in ("%folder%\%mask%") do (
for /f "tokens=2 delims=[] " %%D in ("%%~nF") do (
rem %%F contains the full path to the sql file
rem %%D contains the name of the database, without enclosing []
rem Replace the echo line below with the proper command to run your script
echo run %%F against database [%%D]
)
)