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  • April 3, 2015 at 11:11 am

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    Eirikur Eiriksson (4/3/2015)

    I know I'm somewhat late to the show, haven't read through the whole trail and therefore might be missing something, but my approach would be the xp_cmdshell with "dir /S /N /C" and then filter and parse the results, in my experience it's much more efficient than creating an OLE Object.

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    I absolutely agree but the stigma that some DBAs have against using xp_CmdShell is frightening while there is less of a stigma about using OLE objects. Where one may not be allowed, the other might.

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    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
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