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Old 02-28-2008, 07:32 PM
charliek
 
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Default Re: Dumping incremental changes to textfile

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 14:38:12 +0200, "Simon Hayes" <sql@hayes.ch>
wrote:

>
>"charliek" <charlie_knudsen@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:964kpvc52gfj8mp7vf05oktlquaukcfgdm@4ax.com.. .
>> 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
>


Thanks for the info. I thought that this may be the case, however I
wanted to make sure that I was not overlooking a easy or more
efficient solution.

Thanks,

Charlie

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