file rename with store procedure

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file rename with store procedure

Trestire

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December 3, 2013 at 6:10 am

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Hi all,
I've files with an unix timestamp as name. For instance filename: 1081277409
I've written a function that based on the filename returns the readable dateformat: 2004-04-06 16:50:09.000
I've done this by reading the folder contents (xp_cmdshell) and insert the filenames into a table, wrote a convert function and based on this I get the readable dateformat.
The last thing I need to do is to rename the file: 1081277409 to 2004-04-06 16:50:09.000 automatically.
Is this possible with a stored procedure? I've tried SSIS file task but this won't work.
Any tips would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 1

Trestire (12/3/2013)
Hi all,
I've files with an unix timestamp as name. For instance filename: 1081277409
I've written a function that based on the filename returns the readable dateformat: 2004-04-06 16:50:09.000
I've done this by reading the folder contents (xp_cmdshell) and insert the filenames into a table, wrote a convert function and based on this I get the readable dateformat.
The last thing I need to do is to rename the file: 1081277409 to 2004-04-06 16:50:09.000 automatically.
Is this possible with a stored procedure? I've tried SSIS file task but this won't work.
Any tips would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.

When you say it didn't work with SSIS did you get an error message? Remember that you can't have colons : in a file name.

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Ed Wagner SSC Guru Points: 287026 More actions · Answer 2

Sean Lange (12/3/2013)
Trestire (12/3/2013)
Hi all,
I've files with an unix timestamp as name. For instance filename: 1081277409
I've written a function that based on the filename returns the readable dateformat: 2004-04-06 16:50:09.000
I've done this by reading the folder contents (xp_cmdshell) and insert the filenames into a table, wrote a convert function and based on this I get the readable dateformat.
The last thing I need to do is to rename the file: 1081277409 to 2004-04-06 16:50:09.000 automatically.
Is this possible with a stored procedure? I've tried SSIS file task but this won't work.
Any tips would be highly appreciated. Thanks in advance.
When you say it didn't work with SSIS did you get an error message? Remember that you can't have colons : in a file name.

If you're already using xp_cmdshell to to get the filenames to convert, why not use another shell where you execute the rename commands in DOS? It's pretty straightforward, but Sean hit the nail on the head - you cannot have a colon in a filename no matter how you approach it.

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004362 More actions · Answer 3

Heh... and stop using spaces in file names. It complicates things further down the line. If you must have separation between "fields" in the file names, use underscores.

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