Execute VBScript commands or .vbs files via T-SQL.

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Execute VBScript commands or .vbs files via T-SQL.

cadebryant

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September 24, 2007 at 1:35 am

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turbogary2000 SSC Journeyman Points: 85 More actions · Answer 1

This is a great idea but executing more than 1 line of vbscript code will fail, and you can't output special characters(command chars).

You have to either slice up each line of the vbs, loop through and echo each line to append to the file or just use BCP utility to create your vbs file.

/***********************************************************************************

original script by Cade Bryant: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/Miscellaneous/30963/

updated to enable generating script that is more than 1 line.

windows command shell "ECHO" is limited in what it can do. It can't echo more than

a single line at a time and it can't echo command/special characters

*/

CREATE PROCEDURE usp_ExecVBS

@FileOrCommand VARCHAR(4) = NULL,

@FileCmdText VARCHAR(8000) = NULL

AS

SET NOCOUNT ON

DECLARE @cmd VARCHAR(8000)

IF @FileOrCommand = 'file'

BEGIN

SET @Cmd = 'CScript ' + '"' + @FileCmdText + '"'

EXEC xp_cmdshell @cmd

END

ELSE IF @FileOrCommand = 'cmd'

BEGIN

DECLARE @TempFile SYSNAME

CREATE TABLE ##STAGE

(Command VARCHAR(8000));

INSERT INTO ##STAGE

SELECT @FileCmdText;

SET @TempFile = 'C:\' + CAST(NEWID() AS SYSNAME) + '.vbs'

SET @Cmd = 'bcp "SELECT COMMAND FROM ##STAGE" queryout ' + @TempFile + ' -T -S .\POOP -c'

exec xp_cmdshell @Cmd;

SET @cmd = 'CScript ' + '"' + @TempFile + '"'

EXEC xp_cmdshell @cmd;

SET @cmd = 'DEL ' + @TempFile

EXEC xp_cmdshell @cmd;

DROP TABLE ##STAGE

END;

GO

/******************************************************************************

*execute with "cmd" method:

*******************************************************************************/

EXEC usp_ExecVBS 'cmd',

'Set cdoConfig = CreateObject("CDO.Configuration")

Set cdoMessage = CreateObject("CDO.Message")

schema = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/cdo/configuration/"

With cdoConfig.Fields

.Item(schema & "sendusing") = 2

.Item(schema & "smtpserver") = "smtp.gmail.com"

.Item(schema & "smtpserverport") = 465

.Item(schema & "smtpusessl") = true

.Item(schema & "smtpauthenticate") = 1

.Item(schema & "sendusername") = "gary.luis.ellis@gmail.com"

.Item(schema & "sendpassword") = "%%%%%%%"

.Item(schema & "smptconnectiontimeout") = 40

.update

End With

With cdoMessage

Set .Configuration = cdoConfig

.From = "gary.luis.ellis@gmail.com"

.To = "gary.luis.ellis@gmail.com"

.Subject = "Problems"

.TextBody = "Problems"

.Fields.update

.Send

End With';