Create exe file for n number of scripts

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Create exe file for n number of scripts

Sugesh Kumar

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July 25, 2007 at 9:27 am

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Hi All,
Is there someone who can guide me for the following. I have hundreds of scripts to be executed each time against a database in different servers. I have now written a batch program now but that invloves lot of manual work too. Is there any tools that can take these files as input and generate me a exe to run against the target database.
Cheers,
Sugeshkumar Rajendran
SQL Server MVP
http://sugeshkr.blogspot.com

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schleep SSChampion Points: 12581 More actions · Answer 1

Don't know how to make the .exe, but if you have a list of servers, generate the call to the batch file with parameters, something like:

SELECT 'MyBatFile.Bat ' + Servername

FROM ListOfServers

In the batch file, replace the server name with %1 (I think, it's been a while. See 'batch files, replaceable parameters in' in Windows Help. Save the output as a batch file, and run it.

Alternatively, there is

for %%variable in (set) do command [command-parameters]

See FOR command in Windows Help. This allows you to do it in one batch.

Sugesh Kumar One Orange Chip Points: 27311 More actions · Answer 2

I have no probs with the servername that i have already handled internally the issue is i have hundreds of scripts and now using a batch file to call them one by one it would be great if there is an tool to generate an exe which calls these sctips and fire against the target server.

Cheers,
Sugeshkumar Rajendran
SQL Server MVP
http://sugeshkr.blogspot.com

Lowell SSC Guru Points: 323482 More actions · Answer 3

Sugesh getting a program to call them all is pretty easy...the problem is usually dependancy issues....you know, script 42 has to be run after some other specific scripts, something in script "CreateEntities" assumes something else already exists.

unless you hav some way to determine the order, (ie a naming convention or a specified list), you'd run into trouble.

what kind of assumptions can you make about the files automatically? that every script in the executable's folder ends in .SQL?

that if you sort the names of the .SQL files, they are in the right order?

what do you do if one of the scripts fail? is it a monster transaction, or can each script fail, and you just report script failures?

I can throw you a vb6 or does exactly that, but there's usually a lot of assumptions.

Lowell

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