Hi there,

 

I am extracting data from a SQL Server database. It is populating a dataset with 100K+ records.

At present I am looping through the records and writing them to a text file, resulting in a 14Mb file.

Is there a way to do a bulk dump of the dataset instead of looping through it?

Cheers

Category Survey AutoMate 7 version: 7.1.2 Windows version: Windows 2003

Phillip,

Are you familiar with PowerShell? I have attached a PowerShell script that is referenced in the steps below.

Please edit the file and update the following lines:

$Database = "bpa10"
$Server = "lamabile\sqlexpress"
$User = "user"
$Password = "password"
$AttachmentPath = "C:\test\SQLData.csv"
$SqlQuery = "SELECT * FROM dbo.automateconstructs"

You will also need to update step 2 of the below task to reference the correct location of the .ps1 file. Once you have made the appropriate updates, the script will generate a .csv file with your SQL query results.

Category Survey AutoMate 7 version: Windows version:

Task Steps: (Right click, Select All, Copy to copy to the clipboard. Steps can then be pasted into the AutoMate Task Builder)
<AMRUN FILE="powershell &quot;&amp; &quot;Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Bypass&quot;&quot;" /> <AMRUN FILE="powershell &quot;&amp; &quot;&quot;C:\test\powershell_sql.ps1&quot;&quot;&quot;" /> <AMRUN FILE="powershell &quot;&amp; &quot;Set-ExecutionPolicy -ExecutionPolicy Restricted&quot;&quot;" />




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Leonard Amabile | Director, Cross Platform Support
AutoMate | InterMapper | Skybot | Divisions of HelpSystems
T: +1.213.738.1700 | F: +1.213.738.7665

Leonard

 

Thanks for the resposnse.

 

1. I don't like as it requires the production database username and password to be in, what is essentially, a text file.
2. I don't know what the filename is until it is retreived from the database.

Category Survey AutoMate 7 version: 7.1.2 Windows version: Windows 2003

Phillip,

If you are using a SQL user, you have to specify the username and password within the connection string anyway. You can build the script on the fly but you will still need to specify the password within a variable. Your initial request did not mention that the filename is within the records. You can still do a separate query to get the file name so that you can rename the dump file after. Unfortunately, this is the only other viable option without having to interact with SQL Management Studio or other 3rd party application.

Category Survey AutoMate 7 version: Windows version:

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Leonard Amabile | Director, Cross Platform Support
AutoMate | InterMapper | Skybot | Divisions of HelpSystems
T: +1.213.738.1700 | F: +1.213.738.7665