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Fixing Robocopy for SQL Server Jobs

Wed Feb 17, 2010 by Most Valuable Yak (Rob Volk) in  coolness, command-line

Robocopy is one of, if not the, best life-saving/greatest-thing-since-sliced-bread command line utilities ever to come from Microsoft. If you're not using it already, what are you waiting for? Of course, being a Microsoft product, it's not exactly perfect. Read more →

The For Command: Part 2 - Multiple Tokens, AutoGenerate Files

Sat Jan 22, 2005 by Most Valuable Yak (Rob Volk) in  coolness, command-line

Article text moved here. Legacy Comments rr 2006-02-15 re: The For Command: Part 2 - Multiple Tokens, AutoGenerate Files ok Read more →

The For Command: Part 1-1/2 - Deploy Scripts to Multiple Servers

Sat Jan 22, 2005 by Most Valuable Yak (Rob Volk) in  coolness, command-line

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Command Line SQL Server

Wed Jan 12, 2005 by Most Valuable Yak (Rob Volk) in  coolness, command-line

I've set up a new category on my blog where I plan to post some articles about using command-line utilities to perform various tasks for, or in support of, SQL Server. Read more →

DOS Rulez All ya SQL Newbies!

Sun Sep 28, 2003 by Most Valuable Yak (Rob Volk) in  coolness, command-line

As Damian pointed out, you can do a lot of cool things with DOS command-line functions. Lately I'm particularly enamored of the for command. The DOS for command works like a for. Read more →