If One Of The BCP Fail. Does It Affect The Rest Of The Process??
Dec 8, 1998
Hi, I am wrote the following code in one store procedure called p_bcp_all.
and then scheduled it to run over night. what if the first two bcp were successful but the third one failed. Is the whole procedure going to fail? also what if the first one failed, is the rest of the code going to be executed have the bcp process going for the second and the third table?
thanks for your adivce
regards Ali
create procedure p_bcp_all as
Exec master..xp_cmdshell "bcp servername..tblone in d:blone.txt /fd:formatfileblone.fmt /servername /Usa /password/b250000 /a8000"
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