Appendix D. SQLCMD Quick Reference
SQLCMD is the standard text-based tool for executing batches of T-SQL on SQL Server. As a text-based tool, SQLCMD provides a lightweight but powerful tool for automating T-SQL batches. This appendix is designed as a quick reference to SQLCMD. The descriptions of many of the features and the functionality given here differ from BOL in some instances. The descriptions I give in this appendix are based on extensive testing of SQLCMD.
Command-Line Options
SQLCMD provides several command-line options to provide flexibility in connecting to SQL Server and executing T-SQL batches in a database. The full format for SQLCMD is shown here:
sqlcmd [ [-U login_id ] [-P password ] | [-E] ] [-S server [\instance] ] [-d db_name] ...
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