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Trigger to insert data into a notepad

  • July 30, 2004 at 6:21 am

    #112102

    Good Day All

    I want to create a trigger that will send records INSERTED into a notepad.  Can you please help with the syntax

    CREATE TRIGGER Test ON [Table1]

    FOR INSERT

    NOT FOR REPLICATION

    AS

    /*Instead of Inserting into another table, I WANT TO INSERT DATA INTO A NOTE PAD */

     

  • July 30, 2004 at 7:06 am

    #516987

    I assume you are talking about writing some details to a text file. Try this ...this is from BOL.

    E. Write variable contents to a file

    This example writes the contents of the @var variable to a file named var_out.txt in the current server directory.

    DECLARE @cmd sysname, @var sysnameSET @var = 'Hello world'SET @cmd = 'echo ' + @var + ' > var_out.txt'EXEC master..xp_cmdshell @cmd
    I guess you might have to use xp_cmdshell. check out BOL for further details.
    Cheers!


    Arvind

  • August 1, 2004 at 9:56 pm

    #517165

    With a bit of work, you can also set up a linked server connection to a text file instead of resorting to xp_cmdshell. An example is given of how to set up such a connection in Books Online under the system stored procedure sp_addlinkedserver.

    K. Brian Kelley
    @kbriankelley

  • August 2, 2004 at 3:58 am

    #517212

    Thats cool Brian! Didnt know that cud be done.

    Cheers!


    Arvind

  • August 2, 2004 at 6:31 pm

    #517354

    Warning on that, though; potential performance problems, as you're making the completion of a transaction dependent on external processes completing.

    cl

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  • August 2, 2004 at 9:43 pm

    #517359

    Agreed. It is probably better here to load the data to a table from the trigger and then have an automated process pull the information asynchronous from the user.

    K. Brian Kelley
    @kbriankelley

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