loop through a spreadsheet, move files, then send email - Stored Procedure

you can do it
1) Import the excel into the DB
2) Copy he file EXEC  master.dbo.xp_cmdshell 'COPY C:\temp\'+@File Name
3) send Mail xp_sendmail
repeat step 2, 3

ok, I have done a dts package to import the spreadhseet to a table. Now how do I join to the other table find a match and copy the files into a temp folder?

Select ProdID from TableA Inner Join TableB on TableA.ProdId = TableB.ProdId

Will give you only those items in TableB that exists in TableA

Your ProdID appears sequentially numbered.  I would loop through the results starting with the min ID and add 1 each time until done.  
left(path,len(Path)-7)+@I+'.pdf'  will incriment the number portion of your filename and attach PDF onto the end.  This assumes your filenames start at 0.
You could also insert your email notification into this loop.


declare @I as int, @filename as varchar(200)
set @I = 0    
WHILE (SELECT @I  ) < (select count(ProdID) from TableA Inner Join TableB on TableA.ProdId = TableB.ProdId)

BEGIN

select @I = @I +1

Select @filename = left(path,len(Path)-7)+@I+'.pdf' from from TableA Inner Join TableB on TableA.ProdId = TableB.ProdId where @I = right(ProdID,3)

EXEC  master.dbo.xp_cmdshell 'COPY C:\temp\'+@FileName


END

do not cancel I like FJS159 has a better solution which I am currently testing

hi, I tried t run this in query analyzer

declare @I as int, @filename as varchar(200)
set @I = 0    
WHILE (SELECT @I  ) < (select count(ps.ProdID) from tablea ps Inner Join tableb po on ltrim(rtrim(ps.ProdID)) = 'OP/'+ltrim(rtrim(po.ProdID)))

BEGIN

select @I = @I +1

Select @filename = left(po.path,len(po.Path)-7)+@I+'.pdf' from tablea ps Inner Join tableb po
on ltrim(rtrim(ps.ProdID)) = 'OP/'+ltrim(rtrim(po.ProdID)) where @I = right(ps.ProdID,3)

EXEC  master.dbo.xp_cmdshell 'COPY C:\Temp\'+@filename


but I get the following error:

Server: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 12
Line 12: Incorrect syntax near '+'.

Sorry I just copied the cmdshell line from vinurajr, it was just an example but wasn't complete and I think had an error.
The cmdshell must be the same as you would type in DOS and requires a source & destination for the copy command.
First make sure you have permission to copy files.  try a simple command with no variables.  ie
EXEC  master.dbo.xp_cmdshell 'COPY C:\file.txt c:\file.tmp';
go

If that works try assigning the entire value for your copy command to a variable, then passing that.  ie
USE master;
declare @filename as nvarchar(50), @filename2 as nvarchar(50)
set @filename2 = 'file.txt'
set @filename = 'COPY C:\'+@filename2+' c:\file.tmp'
EXEC  master.dbo.xp_cmdshell @filename
go

Hi, the following works when I use this query:

USE master;
declare @filename as nvarchar(50), @filename2 as nvarchar(50)
set @filename2 = 'file.txt'
set @filename = 'COPY C:\'+@filename2+' c:\file.tmp'
EXEC  master.dbo.xp_cmdshell @filename


When I now run this:
declare @I as int, @filename as varchar(200)
set @I = 0    
WHILE (SELECT @I  ) < (select count(ps.ProdIDo) from tablea ps Inner Join tableb po on ltrim(rtrim(ps.ProdID)) = 'OP/'+ltrim(rtrim(po.ProdID)))


BEGIN

select @I = @I +1

      
Select @filename = left(po.path,len(po.Path)-7)+@I+'.pdf' from tablea ps Inner Join tableb po
on ltrim(rtrim(ps.ProdID)) = 'OP/'+ltrim(rtrim(po.ProdID)) where @I = right(ps.ProdID,3)

EXEC  master.dbo.xp_cmdshell 'COPY C:\pdftemp\'+@filename

 I get the follwoing error:

Server: Msg 170, Level 15, State 1, Line 16
Line 16: Incorrect syntax near '+'.