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  • May 12, 2014 at 3:16 pm

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    JustOffal (5/12/2014)

    Did you ever find out why xp_cmdshell only worked intermittently? I have a similar problem, but mine is running BCP and it just hangs. I have to restart the SQL Server to get BCP to stop.

    The BCP code used to work, but then it just stopped working a few days ago and hasn't worked since. It is not BCP, because I can run that manually from the Cmd prompt with no problem. I cannot manually run xp_cmdshell with the BCP command from SSMS and I get a syntax error.

    Any insights would be appreciated. Thanks!

    Please post the command that's giving the error and the actual error captured from the screen. Thanks.

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