Hello and thank you for your help. I must write non-tabular information to a file. I have tried a few methods that invoke various stored procedures. The following SQL statement tests this and I don't know how to make it work. I have evaluated and set permission for the MSSQLSERVER user on the directory. Would someone help me please?
-- Declarations
DECLARE @FileSystem INT;
DECLARE @FileHandle INT;
DECLARE @FilePath VARCHAR(255);
DECLARE @ForWriting INT;
DECLARE @CreateIfNeeded INT;
DECLARE @TextStream INT;
DECLARE @TextToWrite VARCHAR(MAX);
-- Set the file path
SET @FilePath = 'C:\Users\crmcw\AppData\Local';
SET @ForWriting = 2; -- Constant for write mode
SET @CreateIfNeeded = 8; -- Constant to create the file if it doesn't exist
-- Create the FileSystemObject
EXEC sp_OACreate 'Scripting.FileSystemObject', @FileSystem OUT;
-- Open the file using the OpenTextFile method
EXEC sp_OAMethod @FileSystem, 'OpenTextFile', @FileHandle OUT, @FilePath, @ForWriting, @CreateIfNeeded;
-- Check if the file handle was successfully obtained
IF @FileHandle <> 0
BEGIN
-- File handle obtained, proceed with writing to the file
SET @TextToWrite = 'This is the text to write to the file.';
-- Write the text to the file
EXEC sp_OAMethod @FileHandle, 'WriteLine', NULL, @TextToWrite;
-- Close the file
EXEC sp_OAMethod @FileHandle, 'Close';
-- Clean up the COM objects
EXEC sp_OADestroy @FileHandle;
EXEC sp_OADestroy @FileSystem;
PRINT 'File created and written successfully.';
END
ELSE
BEGIN
-- File handle not obtained, there was an error
PRINT 'Failed to create or open the file.';
END
sp_OA
procedures, they are ancient and full of bugs and are difficult to use correctly. Instead use a proper scripting language like Powershell (you can even create a SQL Agent job written in Powershell). This whole procedure is a single line of Powershell.$TestToWrite | Out-Content -FilePath $FilePath;
As a side note: I see two problems with your code. The file path is actually a directory. You can't write to a directory, you need an actual file path to write to. And SQL Server is unlikely to have the correct permissions to write to a user's private folder, as it runs under a separate service account.