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 Posted - 2004-12-02 : 08:22:19
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| Howard writes "Using windows 2000 server/SQL Server 2000 sp3I've been poking around your site and getting a few answers to a script I've been writing. I'm converting a database from one version of our application to a new version. Part of that process requires that I save some data to a text file - found a good way to do that on your site - thanks! I need to call xp_cmdshell and send it an osql query. The osql query needs the fully qualified database..table format and I have no guarantee that the client is running the database name that I think they should be. So, is it possible to get the current database name in the script programatically so I can add it to my query string?An example:select @str='osql -Q "select * from test..tablename where <some condition>" -w 300 -E -o C:\test\data.txt'exec master..xp_cmdshell @strI don't know for sure that the client would be running this on database 'test' in this case, they could be using 'test_convert' or some other database.Thanks for the help." |
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dsdeming
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Posted - 2004-12-02 : 08:25:20
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| Try SELECT DB_NAME() and use the result to build your @str.Dennis |
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get current database in T-SQL?