Question

Hello I am using MS SQL Management Studio express 2005 and I need to have a stored procedure to activate daily.

However I do not have SQL agent.

The Managemnet studio will not be opened daily so I can’t use a startup script.

Anyone know how to do this without the Agent?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

you can use sqlcmd

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms162773.aspx

then have that in a batch file and scheduled via windows scheduler

example below

sqlcmd -E -S localhost -q "select count(1) from databasename.dbo.tablename"

this will connect to sql on the local machine and perform a rowcount on the table in the database