RE: Copy and rename a file using stored procedure in SQL server 2005

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August 16, 2008 at 7:57 pm

You CAN have file names with spaces (although, I prefer not to). And, you can easily run commands on those file names by enclosing the filename in double quotes... like this...

EXEC master..xp_cmdshell 'RENAME "C:\Webservices\datasource\TradeDetail04-02-08 00_00_00 .txt" TradeDetail.txt'

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

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