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johnaby1
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Posted - 2003-07-10 : 09:25:12
hi,

Can anyone help me out !!

how to list all the file names in a particular directory in Stored Procedure.

I need to do this in Stored Procedure ...Pls provide me some solution...

hope to hear from u..

Thanks in advance
John

mohdowais
Sheikh of Yak Knowledge

1456 Posts

Posted - 2003-07-10 : 09:54:50
Try this:

exec master..xp_cmdshell 'dir D:\MyDirectory'

You need to have permissions to run xp_cmdshell, and be careful with it. With this extended proc you can run practically any (DOS) command...its certainly not the kind you want to give execute permissions for to everybody.

Owais

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