Re: Dumping incremental changes to textfile
"charliek" <charlie_knudsen@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> I was wondering if there is a way to schedule a tast that will dump a
> fixed width text file of all the new entries in a table. So if I had
> a table with like
>
> username - varchar(20)
> created - smalldatetime
>
> I could get a weekly feed each week of all the new users in a text
> file. I know I could write a script that would go through and do this
> by looking at the time stamp, and the last time that the file
> previously ran and get the new dates but I was hoping there was a
> built way to do this. Or perhaps a more elegant solution.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Charlie
Using a script is fine, or you could look at BCP or DTS as well. There's no
automatic functionality for this, so you'll have to set something up
yourself.
Simon |