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By: CarrieAnne

CarrieAnne — Thu, 09 May 2013 13:56:18 +0000

A little late response, but to help any subsequent readers I believe you need to put a GO after each set of SQL commands if you want the output from them to appear in the expected order, otherwise the SQL Batch isn’t completed until after the OS commands have been run.

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By: Imran Mohammed

Imran Mohammed — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 05:19:06 +0000

@Atin,

When you see results in Results to Grid : You will see only result set returned by the query in result, but any message attached to it, like command completed successfully or any error that occurred while executing that sql statements, will be displayed in message tab.

When you see results in Results to Text: You will result set returned by query and any message about that query in the same tab.

That is why you will see one more tab called messages when you set your results window to be Results to Grid.

~ IM.

By: Atin

Atin — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 09:46:41 +0000

Dear All,
I observed a very interesting thing can anyone please explain this..

After running the query in “Results to text” mode I got the answer in Results tab no matter whether OS command or SQL command

But when i run the query in “Results to Grid” mode I get a new tab as “Messages” for OS commands output

Please explain

Thanx n Regards
Atin

By: JS

JS — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:40:52 +0000

I would like to know the answer to Mohan’s question of programmatic access to SqlCMD MODE also…and I would very much like to know how to set a variable dynamically for the :CONNECT command. I already know about :SETVAR but I need to know how to pump a sql variable into :SETVAR:

declare @serv sysname
select @serv=servname from ServerTable
:SETVAR serv @serv –THIS WILL NOT WORK!
:CONNECT $(serv)…

thanks MUCH
-JS

By: mohan

mohan — Wed, 27 May 2009 04:52:49 +0000

Hi all,

i am facing one problem with SQL CMD.

problem is:

I want to automate some SQL CMD script.

For successfull execution of this job i need enable the SQL CMD MODE before executing the SQLCMD script
(like, :connect, :r ….etc.).

I dont know how to enable SQL CMD MODE using “T-SQL” commands.

Please help me as this very urgent/imp to me.

Thanks,
Mohan

By: Rabbit

Rabbit — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 20:06:55 +0000

Resend. Sorry about it.

This is what I got using SB’s snytax, it seems that the OS commands not working properly:

ServerVersion
—————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————————-
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 – 9.00.3042.00 (Intel X86)
Feb 9 2007 22:47:07
Copyright (c) 1988-2005 Microsoft Corporation
Standard Edition on Windows NT 5.2 (Build 3790: Service Pack 2)

(1 row(s) affected)

The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect.
Thu 01/22/2009
CurrentTime
———————–
2009-01-22 14:50:59.353

(1 row(s) affected)

Please advise.

Thank you very much!

By: SB

SB — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:46:36 +0000

This situation can be described in few ways. The basic is sqlcmd does not process sql command unless it find a sql terminator (like ‘go’).
Take the following example. You will get the results in desired sequence.

SELECT @@Version ServerVersion
go
!! Dir “C:\Documents and Settings”
!! Date /T
SELECT GETDATE() CurrentTime
go

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By: Jerry Hung

Jerry Hung — Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:13:14 +0000

One can set variable in SQLCMD mode too, if running T-SQL script in SQLCMD mode

:SETVAR ServerName “Server”
:SETVAR ManagementDatabase “MDW”
GO
:CONNECT $(ServerName)
GO

………….usual T-SQL code………….

By: Kearns

Kearns — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 15:40:04 +0000

Bizarre. I have confirmed this. I wrote a command line program that allows me to use the c# DateTime.ToString and get the full time, I then called the following script:

SET nocount on
SELECT GETDATE() CurrentTime
!! c:\tools\datetime HH:mm:ss.ffffzzz

And it not only puts the results in the opposite order, but it runs them in the opposite order as shown in the results:

10:37:47.8240-05:00
CurrentTime
———————–
2009-01-06 10:37:47.880

Weird.

By: John

John — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 07:50:45 +0000

Here’s a couple for starters – perhaps you might want to rename an old DB backup before running a new one?

Or you might want to control Windows services, stopping one before running some maintenance and then restarting.