Delete Files Automatically? Help!!
Jul 31, 2002I need to setup an automated process to delete all the files older than a month in a particular directory on a network drive, how is that possible? Any help is greatly appreciated.
thanks.
Sheila.
I need to setup an automated process to delete all the files older than a month in a particular directory on a network drive, how is that possible? Any help is greatly appreciated.
thanks.
Sheila.
How can I delete tables in a SQLServer Database automatically (at the moment I just do it using Micorosft SQl Management Studio Express manually) But its important that I can do that automatically, the best thing would be if I can do that from a .NET programm. thanks in advance,mulata
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It is looking for files in C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL10_50.INSTANCEMSSQLLog whereas it should be looking in C:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVERMSSQLLog
how I can get this corrected so I can get the Maintenance Plans to run correctly.
I have tried deleting and recreating the Plan but to no avail
Hello Friends,
I am working on DTS package. I got a wonderful article of Davide Mauri.
http://www.sqlteam.com/article/how-to-asynchronously-execute-a-dts-package-from-asp-or-aspnet
I am using DTS package to update a table. I have done all the things that are stated in that article. Also there is a point
on how to delete the jobs automatically when the job execution is done so that we dont have to manually delete the jobs later
on. The @delete_level does the trick. I thought it would work but after executing the DTS for a variable number of times I
got this error...
The specified @name ('dts1') already exists. Supply either @job_id or @job_name to identify the job. Supply either @job_id or
@job_name to identify the job. Supply either @job_id or @job_name to identify the job.
Now i am not getting what went wrong? I have implemented all steps given in that article. Please see on how to delete the job
immediately upon successful execution. I dont want to create a 'n' number of job names every time.
Pl help on it.
Thank you,
Prashant...
I have the need to delete old backup files via TSQL job. Found this solution online:
PushD "
emoteservershareDIFF" &&(
forfiles -m *DIFF*.sqb -d -1 -c "cmd /c del /q @path"
) & PopD
It works remotely if I run it via command prompt. But when I add this to a TSQL job on my remote SQL instance, it runs without deleting anything. What I'm missing?
Hi, we are deploying in an external server a report model and some reports developed with it.
We already have a procedure to deploy the model and reports one by one using upload files feature, we are worried about not to deployed all reports we have to (mistake in manual process). Is there a way to automatize this process?, a command, a program o somethink like this?.
Thanks in advance.
Julio
I have one stored procedure for insert, update and delete operations, I need automatically logged the insert,update and delete operations.
How can I set auto logged mechanism and how can I access the logs in c#?
Thanks
I would like to perform autodeletion operation from my table using stored procedure....
Here is my table structure:
Emp.id | emp_name | dept | desig | time_out | date | emp_sign |
if the user inserts new employee record that record should delete automatically from original after
30 minutes..I don't want to keep that newly inserted record after
30 minutes...I don't know how to achieve this...
Iam aware that Microsoft SQL 2005 Express Edition does not have agent or DTS capabilities, but how may I automate an import of flat files to the DB tables? Must I use an external VB development of is there a way to schedule an import of flat files to Microsoft SQL 2005 Express Edition ?
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View 3 Replies View RelatedHello All
I have a SQL 2005 server I inherited and am trying to clean up. I am unable to delete some log files. The databases they were associated with do not exist in sysdatabases. However, when I try to delete them I get the message they are in use. There are no other instances attached to this server.
Any help is appreciated.
I need to delete all the *.txt file in a specific folder modified date is older than 2 months,. How can I do this in a stored procedure?
View 5 Replies View RelatedI need to load the latest csv files from file server , The files are placed in a folder called -
Posted 02022015- --> csv files .
I am able to copy the csv files from filserver using bulk insert (manually) , giving the file location
I am having difficulty picking up the latest folder which is posted on the server and import it into database using a stored proc .
hi,
i want to delete the backup files older than 15 days. how can i do this?
Actually i backup the db and log using the TSQL, and the backup files are in d:ackup folder. I tried sqlmaint,xp_sqlmaint but its not running .
Any idea? thanks in adv.
kumar
can I use xp_cmdshell to delete files older than lets say 30 minutes? can anyone show me what the command will look like?
Thanks
Shahab
Hi everybody,
Can anyone help me out in deleting files more than n- hours from a physical folder using xp_cmdshell ....
how can I delete files, which are allready imported into a database. I have a folder with 600,000 files . All Files should be in a database. And I want to delete the files that are found in the table with filename . How can I make the ?? The Filename and physicals Name is the same so i can say table.filename=physical.filename.
View 20 Replies View RelatedI've been tasked with coming up with a process to delete old files out of a certain directory. It's prefered to have a configuration file to go in and be able to change the number of days to retain files (7 for delete files older than 7 days for example). I've been told I can do this with SSIS. Can anybody point me in the right direction to do this in SSIS or even in DOS? I don't know ActiveX scripting if that's what's needed in SSIS. I prefer doing something like this in DOS but not sure it's possible to automate. Any help is appreciated.
Van
I wish to delete remote files on an FTP server after I download them. I want to download files daily and delete them daily after I finish downloading. I am trying to use the FTP task to do this but I get an error when it tries to delete files from specified location. It says:
"Unable to delete files using FTP Connection Manager" The FTP connection manager contains the FTP connection string and password. I have unchecked the passive mode box. Can someone help me with this error,
Thanks
Annie
I already did the following but still it wont delete the log file because it is not empty- DBCC SHRINKFILE('logfilename',EMPTYFILE) - DBCC SHRINKFILE('logfilename',TRUNCATEONLY)- ALTER DATABASE databasename REMOVE FILE logfilename
View 4 Replies View RelatedHello,
How to delete old files stored in a directory using dos script?.
I appreciate your feedback.
Thanks,
Ravi
I have a database with 2 log files VE_log and VE_log2 (the split is left from legacy system with limited disk space). I want to eliminate the 2nd log.
I've tried SHRINKFILE (EMPTYFILE), which of course reduces the file to the default minimum pages, SHRINKFILE (TRUNCATEONLY), SHRINKDATABASE (VE), and in every case the ALTER DATABASE REMOVE FILE command fails cause the log isn't empty.
Ideas???
Thanks,
Al
Folks:
I want to delete files on windows from a directory which are 2 days old. I understand we can do that using xp_cmdshell. Anybody with a script would really help me.
Thanks !
Ok in SQL 2000 this is within the maintaince plan, where as i have to create a seprate one for sql 2005 being i assume the 'clean up history' I choose the backup andrestore option choose 2 weeks and then run the job once created it runs sucssessfully but yet it dosnt delete a thing. I have backups going back almost 2 months now.
What on earth am i not doing?
Thanks in advanced
I created a backup device and a job to backup a full dbs and transaction logs. When I first created the backup statement it was created with RETAIN DAYS = 10
Its been 15 days and the ones created after 10 days appear to be marked for deletiong but I am obviously missing a statement in my backup statement or in another job I need to schedule to come through and delete the old files from the backup device. Please help me figure out what this statement needs to be.
All the backups and T-log backups are written to one device which is one file.
Thanks
Scott
is it possible to delete a source file(*.txt) when a SSIS package is done with it?
View 3 Replies View RelatedHi all,Can anyone help me with a script which would delete files ormove them to a different folder at some scheduled time..!Please.....!!!Thanks in advance...
View 5 Replies View RelatedI have several maintenance plans setup and working in SQL/2005 (sp2 9.0.3042) on several servers; however, the .txt maint plan output files will not delete on any of the servers. The backups run fine, the old database and transaction log backup files delete fine (.bak and .trn); but, the .txt files won't go away unless I delete them by hand. I tried copy/paste the scripted command (xp_delete_file) and it runs with no errors but does not delete the old .txt files. ( This server was upgraded from SQL/2000 -
EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_delete_file 1,N'E:Program FilesMicrosoft SQL ServerMSSQLLOG',N'txt',N'2007-07-09T10:59:38'
)
I do NOT specify a period (.) in the file extension dialog box. Any ideas before I setup a .cmd batch file and schedule it instead?
Thanks in Advance,
DeWayne
Hello,
I have two FTP Tasks configured in my SSIS package. One is for "Receive files" and the other is set for "Delete remote files." Both use variables for the source/destination paths. My remote path variable contains a wild card in the name field such as /usr/this/is/my/path/*.ext and it is working to FTP all the .ext files to my working directory. I then rename the files and want to remove the original files from the FTP server. I use the same variable as the remote path variable in the delete as I do in the receive.
Using the same FTP connection manager for both tasks I am always getting a failure on the delete. The FTP connection manger is setup to use the root user. Using a terminal I am able to open an FTP connection to the server and remove the files manually. There doesn't seem to be any detailed documentation on the FTP Task configured for Delete remote files so I'm hoping someone might have some insight to the problem.
I receive the same message for each of the files that was downloaded:
Error: 0xC001602A at MyPackage, Connection manager "FTP Connection Manager": An error occurred in the requested FTP operation. Detailed error description: 550 usr hisismypathdatafile1.ext: No such file or directory.
The attempt to delete file "usr hisismypathdatafile1.ext" failed. This may occur when the file does not exist, the file name was spelled incorrectly, or you do not have permissions to delete the file.
With the root user/working manually I'm not understanding the permission reason, the file does exist and is spelled correctly.
Dan
We are Downloading files from FTP Site using "FTP Task" and we need to remove those files after downloading.
We need to delete files of specific names, like "Names_*.TXT" (All the txt files and Names starting from "Names_") so We are using Delete Remote Files and Remote path we are specifying as "/Names_*.TXT"
This doesn't work its not able to delete the files so, We tried using "*.*" and also given the specific filename like "Names_A1.TXT" then also its not deleting the remote files.
Please let me know the solution.
Thanks,
Priaynk Gajera
I can create remote folder and delete it
I also can create remote files but i can not delete remote files
error warning is like subject
any ides? thanks
I'm using below script within the execute T-SQL statement task of the maintenance plan, which is created to delete the zip files older than 2 days, the task runs before the backup database task gets kicked off, but some how the task is not deleting the old .zip files.
Code being used within the task: output of the @delete_file variable within the delete command is Del X:SQLBackup*2015_05_06*.zip before it is passed to the final exec statement, the server is in EST time zone.
declare @ConvertDate char(10)
declare @Delete_file varchar(80)
set @ConvertDate = CONVERT ( char(10) , dateadd( dd, -2, getdate()) , 121 )
[code]....
I want to delete all files in a given folder that are older than 3 days from today's date.
I tried using a "Foreach Loop container" with a "File System" task inside it but found I couldn't access any file properties such as the file creation date. Am I using the wrong task for this job?
TIA,
Barkingdog
P.S. History of the problem:
I used the sql 2005 Database maintenance program to setup our database backup jobs. One day I noticed that the free space on the drive where we keep the dumps had grown small. I found that we had at least 4 weeks of dumps in there, not the 3 days I wanted to keep! I looked but could not find the "delete file" option in the SSIS package generated by the Database Maintenance Wizard. No wonder the files were piling up.