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Inspector Gadget. RKL eSolutions Blogs. By Richard Cushing. Leave a Comment. A stored procedure to write-out the data First, we will need a stored procedure that we can call to write-out to the designated file the data that we will gather and pass to it.

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Once you learn my business secrets, you will fix the majority of problems in the future. Let me know if you ever faced such a situation with the transaction. Leave new stork. Eos Rios. Ken Sturgeon. Would it seem reasonable to use this approach for logging various tasks? If the file exists, it will write a line or append to it.

So, in the above example, only the number of rows in the pubs.. Caveats There are a couple of things you do need to be aware of when you use this:.

I think there is a limitation on how long the resulting cmdtxt line can be. Being that I have background in DOS, my rule of thumb is that cmdtxt shouldn't be any longer than characters. I just tested out that theory and NT did allow me to put way more than characters into a file, but I am sure there is a max.. At an absolute max, SQL Server will only allow a maximum value of for the size of a varchar datatype. This is a simple solution that I am sure could probably be improved on.

I thank Gaurav Manhindra who first asked me if this was possible to do in a simple manner. If you haven't seen it already, click here to see a SQL Table-based solution that I use to log information from my processes.

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