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I need to create a trigger event (on create) that will, based on values in the new row, open a matching text file, read in it's contents and append them to a field in that row.
For example, upon adding the row: Smith, John, 12345 the trigger would look for a file "12345.txt" on d:\data\files read in it's contents and append them back into the same row.
Is it possible for a trigger to do this or am I barking up the wrong tree? Thanks.
Thanks.
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USE AdventureWorks; GO
CREATE TABLE myTable( FileName nvarchar(60), FileType nvarchar(60), Document nvarchar(max)); GO
ALTER TRIGGER myTrig ON myTable INSTEAD OF INSERT AS DECLARE @filename nvarchar(60); DECLARE @filepath nvarchar(60); DECLARE @sqlstmt nvarchar(4000); DECLARE @document nvarchar(max)
SELECT @filename = Filename FROM inserted ; SET @filepath = 'D:\' + @filename +'.txt';
set @sqlstmt = 'SELECT @docout = BulkColumn FROM OPENROWSET(BULK ''' + @filepath + ''', SINGLE_CLOB) AS Document;' select @sqlstmt exec sp_executesql @sqlstmt, N'@docout nvarchar(max) OUTPUT', @docout=@document output INSERT INTO myTable select i.filename, i.filetype, @document from inserted i
GO
Colleen M. Morrow Cleveland DBA
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Well damn. I guess I'll take that as a "Yes."
Much more than I asked for and much appreciated.
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