Running Cmdexec in SQL Server Job

Question

Hi Everyone,
I wanted to run a scripts in a job to clean up my folders in SQL Server 2005. The scripts is as below:
for /f %%i in ('dir /b /s /AD F:\ASCC_FileStore\CITIntegration') do cscript D:\Scripts\BizTalk\BizTalk_WMI.vbs -maintainfolder "%%i"
No error was happening when it was executed in a batch file.
but when I ran it in a SQL job, I got below error:
%%i was unexpected at this time.
Could you please give me some advice? Thank you very much.
regards,
Oliver

Answer 1

Hi Oliver_Wang,
According to your description, if you want to delete files with a SQL Agent job in SQL Server, you can also use xp_cmdshell
 command. Here is a full SQL query that is used for deleting the files.
----------------------------------- Enabling the COMMAND SHELL ------------------------------
--Script to enable the XP_CMDSHELL
-- To allow advanced options to be changed.
EXEC sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1
GO
-- To update the currently configured value for advanced options.
RECONFIGURE
GO
-- To enable the feature.
EXEC sp_configure 'xp_cmdshell', 1
GO
-- To update the currently configured value for this feature.
RECONFIGURE
GO
----------------------------------- Deleting the files in ------------------------------------
-- Suppose we need to delete all .txt files under the path (such as "D:\temp\Testing\")
xp_cmdshell 'DEL D:\temp\Testing\*.txt'
Regards,
Sofiya Li
Sofiya Li
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