Comments on: SQL SERVER – Enable xp_cmdshell using sp_configure

By: Vinod

Vinod — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:17:14 +0000

How can i format d drive using xp_cmdshell command. When i run
exec xp_cmdshell ‘format d:’
two errors are shown
1. The type of the file system is FAT32.
2. Enter current volume label for drive D: An incorrect volume label was entered for this drive.
how can i resolve it. Thanks in advance

By: Varinder Sandhu

Varinder Sandhu — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 10:51:56 +0000

Alternative way

1. Click the Start button.
2. Select All Programs.
3. Navigate to the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 folder.
4. Right Click on Server name then click facets options
5. In the Facets Option choose Surface Area Configuration in dropdown
6. At the bottom of the window, mark True for xp_cmdshell.
7. Click OK.

By: Ramesh Muthukrishnan

Ramesh Muthukrishnan — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 19:05:05 +0000

Forgot to mention,
above one is for SQL 2008

Thanks
R

By: Dinkar

Dinkar — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 08:36:49 +0000

Hi,
i am getting error 14262: what i am trying to assisgn a sql login as proxy account but its giving me this error and saying it doesnt exist.

Any help will be highly appretiated.

By: Varinder Sandhu

Varinder Sandhu — Tue, 21 Dec 2010 07:18:52 +0000

I have tried to enable this option as suggested

getting an error msg

Msg 15123, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_configure, Line 51
The configuration option ‘xp_cmdshell’ does not exist, or it may be an advanced option.

Please Advice !!!

By: Dinkar

Dinkar — Fri, 03 Dec 2010 04:03:37 +0000

Hi Pinal,
A query: I want to run a Sql Agent job with proxy account which will execute a SSIS package. This package copy data from A1 server’s database and paste it onto another database on A2 server.
The accounts which i am going to assign for this job have permissions to access both A1 & A2.
Query which was coming in my mind is: If Login Name(from Active directory) used to login on SSMS doesnt have permissions for A1 & A2 but still able to create job and assigning proxy account for that.
Would my package still work?
Does proxy account overlap permissions of the login name?
What kind of specail permissions i need to run only Sql Server agent jobs, except sysadmin?

I hope i am making some sense here.

Thanx in advance everyone.

By: Abhi

Abhi — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:05:48 +0000

Hi all, i hope you can help me.

i logon into sql serve 2005 using my windows account.

i am trying to execute xp_cmdshell from my account as i am member of fixed server role (sysadmin acouunt).

when i am executing xp_cmdshell , its running under ##xp_cmdshell_proxy_account## “Proxy acoount”.

please help me to runn under sysadmin account .

By: Raghu

Raghu — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 07:01:57 +0000

Hi Pinal,

while running batch file through sqlserver ,I am getting the following error ..

EXEC master.dbo.xp_cmdshell ‘C:RunMasterPackage.bat’

output
‘C:\RunMasterPackage.bat’ is not recognized as an internal or external command,
operable program or batch file.
NULL

By: krishan

krishan — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:46:37 +0000

when i enter this in SQL Server 2000 and OS: windows XP Professional

EXEC xp_cmdshell ‘notepad.exe’

it shows ‘executing query’ and so on…………………..
on ending of this statement

plz help

how can i run exernal files/exes from query

thanks
krishan

By: vikas gopal

vikas gopal — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:52:49 +0000

hey vikas this side.
you just do one thing just enable ur advane option in sql. type

exec sp_configure ‘show advance option’ , 1
reconfigure with override
go

this will enable your advance option after that you can run ‘exec sp_configure ‘xp_cmdshell’,1′

hope this will help you

By: vikas gopal

vikas gopal — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 11:46:38 +0000

hello sir,
i am working on sq 2005 standard addition.AWE is enable on my server and i want to set a schedule for automatic full database backup on daily bases but when i reconfigure agent_xp server throw an error message

“Address Windowing Extensions (AWE) requires the ‘lock pages in memory’ privilege which is not currently present in the access token of the process.”

even i have checked lock page in memory it is enabled. Please sir suggest me what i can do for this

By: learqtptesting

learqtptesting — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:09:57 +0000

Hi,

I could figure out to get to SQLPlus of SQL 2005 to execute the above posted command.

Could anyone of you give me instruction to execute the SQL command.

Thanks

By: Subhash

Subhash — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 07:14:21 +0000

Hi,
I am getting an error
“The configuration option ‘xp_cmdshell’ does not exist, or it may be an advanced option.” while running
exec sp_configure ‘xp_cmdshell’,1

please reply me if you have any idea.

By: Arno Venter

Arno Venter — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 12:34:01 +0000

Hi Adalton Jr.

If you want to view all the configurations and if they are enabled or not, you can just run the sp_configure without parameters.

For example:

EXEC dbo.sp_configure

By: Pinal Dave

Pinal Dave — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:51:05 +0000

Hello Denise

sys. schema is accessible from all databases. So these queries to check configuration can be executed in any database.

Regards,
Pinal Dave

By: Denise

Denise — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 16:07:42 +0000

Where do I execute this from?

By: Marcia

Marcia — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 14:36:29 +0000

Adalton you can try this:

SELECT Value FROM SYS.CONFIGURATIONS WHERE Name = ‘show advanced options’
SELECT Value FROM SYS.CONFIGURATIONS WHERE Name = ‘xp_cmdshell’

By: Tejas Shah

Tejas Shah — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:44:00 +0000

Hi Adalton,

If you need to disable this feature, you just need to configure it as:

EXEC sp_configure ‘xp_cmdshell’, 0
GO
RECONFIGURE
GO

To Enable it, as Pinal said:

EXEC sp_configure ‘xp_cmdshell’, 1
GO
RECONFIGURE
GO

Thanks,

Tejas
SQLYoga.com

By: Adalton Jr.

Adalton Jr. — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:16:04 +0000

Dear Pinal and other users of SQL Server,

I have a question about xp_cmdshell.

I read the article about “SQL SERVER – Enable xp_cmdshell using sp_configure” but what I need not enable or disable this feature. I need to know if it is enabled or not. This is possible using sql statement?

I look back and I thank your attention.

By: Krishan

Krishan — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:20:23 +0000

Hi, We need to disbale other extended sp. like
xp_regread, xp_regwrite, xp_regaddmultistring, xp_regdeletekey

Please help me how will do

By: Marcia

Marcia — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 17:05:06 +0000

For security reasons, we do not want to enable xp_cmdshell. However, for other practical reasons, we want to use it for some jobs. My thought was to enable xp_cmdshell at the start of the job, and then disable it when the job completes. How much overhead does the reconfigure take? Also, do you know what would happen if one job does the disable while a second job is in the middle of using the xp_cmdshell? Would the second job err out or would the disabling/reconfiguring err out? I tried to test it, but I can’t seem to come up with a long-running job to test this out.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 23:21:29 +0000

Thanks!

By: praveen

praveen — Fri, 17 Oct 2008 14:00:22 +0000

it is very helpfull to delete files from server through sql server.

thanks guys!.

Thanks and Regards
praveen

By: Vivek Rathore

Vivek Rathore — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 09:07:19 +0000

Hi,

I am trying to run a batch file and using the following syntax:
EXECUTE master..xp_cmdshell ‘C:\AAT_PDF_Thumbnail_Generator\test.bat’

It does not show any error message and the query goes running. Please help me to figure out that where i am wrong.
And will u please tell me the steps regarding the Access rights to execute it with the user of the database. Although i have given the execute rights to the user and the same process is running fine in SQL 2000.

Thanks n Reagrds,
Vivek Rathore.

By: dimitris

dimitris — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:50:36 +0000

Hi i want to enable the xp_cmdshell on sql server 2000.
Please give me information if you can.
thanks a lot just for reading this!