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AppSup_dba

Posted Friday, August 24, 2012 5:27 AM

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Hi ,

I am trying to use SQLCMD to run a SQL Script. The script is of type.

Begin tran

Delete .....

Insert .....

Commit tran

The output captured doesnt show the proper output. Only rows affected by the DELETE statement is captured. Rows affected by the insert statement is not captured.

My SQLCMD statement looks like....

master.dbo.xp_cmdshell 'sqlcmd -SABC -d DEF -u -i "G:\fct_t.sql" -o "G:\fct_t.txt"'

Please help!!!

Cheers,
Ankur

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Posted Friday, August 24, 2012 8:45 AM

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AppSup_dba (8/24/2012)

This is not very clear to me.

What output are you referring to? You would not typically expect any if you action an Insert or Delete unless you are reading from the Inserted/Deleted Tables?

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AppSup_dba

Posted Friday, August 24, 2012 8:50 AM

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Thanks for looking into this... I will try to make it make clear....

Actual output:
Starting the Transaction.
Beginning to run the queries.

(0 rows affected)
Queries executed successfully.
Transaction committed successfully.

Expected output:
Starting the Transaction.
Beginning to run the queries.

(0 rows affected)
(1 rows affected)
(1 rows affected)
(1 rows affected)
Queries executed successfully.
Transaction committed successfully.

Cheers,
Ankur

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Lynn Pettis

Posted Friday, August 24, 2012 9:45 AM

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Unfortunately, we can't see what you see. You haven't given us enough information to be able to help you. Based on what has been posted, I can't even give you a shot in the dark.

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Posted Friday, August 24, 2012 9:46 AM

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AppSup_dba (8/24/2012)

Is there any conditional logic in there?

How did you determine that was the expected output?
You ran the query with another tool?

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Posted Friday, August 24, 2012 11:21 PM

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Lynn, OTF,
I think what OP is talking about is redirecting STDOUT to a file (specified by the -o switch). This supposed to capture all output produced by SQL statements in the input file (specified by -i) and write them to a file.

Ankur,
Are you sure there are no errors? Try to setup error log as well.

For Reference:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms162773(v=sql.105).aspx

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Posted Saturday, August 25, 2012 12:38 AM

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Even I tried this procedure. The link which you provided helped a lot. Thanks for providing the link.

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AppSup_dba

Posted Monday, August 27, 2012 3:51 AM

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In hurry to get my issue resolved i think i didnt provide enough information. My bad. I will try to make thing more clear now and provide scripts so that you can recreate the scenario.

My table structure:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[test_t](
[ser] [nvarchar](100) NULL,
[exp_date] [date] NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]

SQL query that i intend to run:
DELETE FROM dbo.test_t WHERE ser = 'cd5546';
INSERT INTO dbo.test_t VALUES ('ab3546','2012-04-19')
INSERT INTO dbo.test_t VALUES ('ab4546','2012-04-19')
INSERT INTO dbo.test_t VALUES ('cd5546','2012-04-19')

When in run this query from MS, i get the following output(As expected):
(0 row(s) affected)

(1 row(s) affected)

(1 row(s) affected)

(1 row(s) affected)

When i run this query using SQLCMD in below syntax, after saving the sql query as C:\SQL\SQLQuery2.sql

master.dbo.xp_cmdshell 'sqlcmd -Sserver -d database -W -i "C:\SQL\SQLQuery2.sql" -o "C:\SQL\Output\SQLQuery2.sql"'

The output file that gets created as C:\SQL\Output\SQLQuery2.sql contains only below text.

(0 rows affected)

The number of rows affected by the Insert statements doesnt get captured. Actually only the output of first SQL statement is captured.

Though i tested that if i run my statements in batches, i get desired results. But i dont understand the behavior in above scripts.

I can provide any more info as required. Thanks people for your help... I great appreciate your support.

Cheers,
Ankur

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