Renaming a Windows file with SQL statements

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Renaming a Windows file with SQL statements

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JPFish79
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Posted - 2014-05-21 : 12:31:54

I run the following command on SQL server:

declare @strExec varchar(4000)
set @strExec = 'G:\SQLBackup\SQLMant\Judgeassign\RenJdgD.bat judgeassign_DBbackup_' + ltrim(str(year(getdate()))) + '-' + ltrim(str(month(getdate()))) + '-' + ltrim(str(day(getdate()))) + '.bak'

exec xp_cmdshell @strexec

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The RenJdgD.bat does the following:

G:
cd SQLBackup\SQLData\Judgeassign
rename judgeassign_DBbackup.bak %1

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What this does as you can see is renames the windows file appending with the date, I want to also append the time, how do I do this?

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James K
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Posted - 2014-05-21 : 16:26:46

Append CAST(CAST(GETDATE() AS TIME) AS VARCHAR(32)) (or a substring of that if you don't want the millisecond precision) to your existing string.

Edit: TIME data type is available only in SQL 2008 or later. I missed that you are on SQL 2005. You will have to use some other method to extract the time portion. For example:

RIGHT(CONVERT(VARCHAR(32), GETDATE(),113),12)

.

If that does not quite work for you, look at other formatting options here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187928.aspx

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