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Saving to Text file from TSQL

Asked by billy21 in MS SQL Server

Tags: sp_oamethod, append

I have the following stored proc (see below) which works very well to save a big chunk of text to a text file.  How can this be modified to accept one line at a time and append the text to my text file?

I need to take into account the fact that upon first insert the text file will not exist.

Thanks in advance,

Bill.

Create Proc UCreateTextFile(@Filename VarChar(100),@Text nText)
AS
      DECLARE @FileSystem int
      DECLARE @FileHandle int
      DECLARE @RetCode int
      
      
      EXECUTE @RetCode = sp_OACreate 'Scripting.FileSystemObject' , @FileSystem OUTPUT
      IF (@@ERROR|@RetCode > 0 Or @FileSystem < 0)
           RAISERROR ('could not create FileSystemObject',16,1)
      
      EXECUTE @RetCode = sp_OAMethod @FileSystem , 'OpenTextFile' , @FileHandle OUTPUT , @Filename, 2, 1
      IF (@@ERROR|@RetCode > 0 Or @FileHandle < 0)
           RAISERROR ('could not create File',16,1)
      
      EXECUTE @RetCode = sp_OAMethod @FileHandle , 'Write' , NULL , @text
      IF (@@ERROR|@RetCode > 0 )
           RAISERROR ('could not write to File',16,1)
      
      EXECUTE @RetCode = sp_OAMethod @FileHandle , 'Close'
      IF (@@ERROR|@RetCode > 0)
           RAISERROR ('Could not close file ',16,1)
      
      EXEC sp_OADestroy @filehandle
      IF (@@ERROR|@RetCode > 0)
           RAISERROR ('Could not destroy file object',16,1)
      
      EXEC sp_OADestroy @FileSystem
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Zone: MS SQL Server
Tags: sp_oamethod, append
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