June 23, 2021 at 2:26 pm
Hi,
I looked on the web and I just found the cod that I have below to run a batch file.
But it does not work, when I look at view history of the jobs it says it ran successfully, but it does do anything.
If I run the batch file directly it works perfectly. I need it in a job because I want to secdual it to run every 15 minutes.
Any ideas of what is happening or what I can do to run the batch file from the job?
Thank you
My code in the job
cmd.exe /c "C:\Scripts\FileTimeFilterJS.bat"
June 23, 2021 at 2:48 pm
As a random guess (I can't see the code in your bat file), it is either using relative paths OR is using network shared drives.
Since SQL says it ran successfully, it is VERY likely that it ran to completion. What you could do is add some logging into your bat file so you can tell what has been run and were it ran into problems. Inside your bat file, you can redirect all errors to a file and all output to a file. This will help you in debugging what went wrong.
Another possible problem could be permissions as that bat file is being run as the SQL Server Agent Service account, not as you. So running the bat file as yourself doesn't really tell you anything that useful.
An alternate way to run it where you can have more control over who is running it would e to use windows task scheduler. Depending on your needs, this may or may not work for you.
The above is all just my opinion on what you should do.
As with all advice you find on a random internet forum - you shouldn't blindly follow it. Always test on a test server to see if there is negative side effects before making changes to live!
I recommend you NEVER run "random code" you found online on any system you care about UNLESS you understand and can verify the code OR you don't care if the code trashes your system.
June 23, 2021 at 4:55 pm
As far as the file path in the script it has a path like this C:\scripts\file.bat.
the file has Service account permissions in it.
Thank you
June 23, 2021 at 6:48 pm
running the script from C:\ though is different than running it from c:\temp or any other folder. If "file.bat" is using relative paths instead of absolute paths, it may be that it can't find a file/folder it is looking for.
The above is all just my opinion on what you should do.
As with all advice you find on a random internet forum - you shouldn't blindly follow it. Always test on a test server to see if there is negative side effects before making changes to live!
I recommend you NEVER run "random code" you found online on any system you care about UNLESS you understand and can verify the code OR you don't care if the code trashes your system.
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