Handy Trick : Concatenate SQL Files

Aug 11, 2002

Hi all. Here is a little trick I came up with the other day. Although a bunch of yu may have already thought of it, I thought I might share it.

I had a directory with about 30 .sql files in it (each one a Create Procedure statement). I needed to deploy all the files to a live database. Being the incredibly lazy person I am I didn't want to open up each file and run it.

So, I dropped into DOS, went to that directory and typed

type *.sql > newfile.sql

This created a new file that contained all of the other files, I could just run that file in query analyzer and I was done.

Give it a try!

Damian

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Hi All,
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I want to take those files and concatenate them into a single file in another directory ready for processing.

The equivelent command prompt line would be copy c: estfiles*.* c: estfilescatteddata.dat

How would I be best doing this in SSIS? Also I could do with working out the best way to quiesce the folder so I don't get any locked files errors.

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