June 2015
Intermediate to advanced
1800 pages
70h 6m
English
The sqlcmd command-line utility is the next generation of the isql and osql utilities that you may have used in prior versions of SQL Server. It provides the same type of functionality as isql and osql, including the capability to connect to SQL Server from the command prompt and execute T-SQL commands. The T-SQL commands can be stored in a script file, entered interactively, or specified as command-line arguments to sqlcmd.
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The isql and osql command-line utilities are not covered in this chapter. The isql utility was discontinued in SQL Server 2005 and is not supported in SQL Server 2014. The osql utility is still supported but will be removed in a future version of SQL Server. It is also not supported ...
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