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latture
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Posted - 02/06/2013 :  10:53:16  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Hello, fairly new here.

I'm getting a 'Msg 8144, Level 16, State 201, Procedure xp_cmdshell, Line 1 Procedure or function xp_cmdshell has too many arguments specified' error message when I run the bcp process below. Can anyone tell me why?

exec master..xp_cmdshell 'BCP "DECLARE @colnames VARCHAR(max);SELECT @colnames = COALESCE(@colnames + ',', '') + column_name from RPIUser_input.dbo.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS where TABLE_NAME=PartSiteTrans; select @colnames;" queryout c:\export\HeadersOnly.csv -c -T -SRQL', no_output
Edited by - latture on 02/06/2013 10:54:42

visakh16
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Posted - 02/06/2013 :  11:07:00  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
try like

DECLARE @BCPCmd varchar(8000)

SET @BCPCmd='BCP "DECLARE @colnames VARCHAR(max);SELECT @colnames = COALESCE(@colnames + ',', '') + column_name from RPIUser_input.dbo.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS where TABLE_NAME=PartSiteTrans; select @colnames;" queryout c:\export\HeadersOnly.csv -c -T -SRQL'

EXEC xp_cmdshell @BCPCmd,no_output


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latture
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Posted - 02/06/2013 :  11:41:12  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Sweet, thanks.
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visakh16
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Posted - 02/06/2013 :  11:42:00  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
welcome

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