Question

I use Visual Studio 2008 database project for managing my database scripts and version control. by default visual studio script templates are encoded in UTF-8 format. when I try to concatenate the scripts for database release (using the DOS command “type *.sql > dbscripts.sql”) and run the concatenated script from SQL server management studio, I get invalid character error. however if I convert each script to ANSI format (using notepad), and concatenate them then I don’t get any errors when I run the concatenated script. but converting each script into a different encoding format is tedious. what is the best way to execute multiple SQL scripts regardless of the encoding format of the scripts? do I need to create a batch file and use sqlcmd to run it and redirect the output to a text file? are there any alternatives?
Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

found this link which generates “SQLCMD” commands using Windows Powershell. for concatenation, it looks like there is no solution except saving each file in ANSI format. I can at least generate a file with all sqlcmd commands using this without having to concatenate them

http://sqladm.blogspot.com/2010/02/generate-sqlcmd-statements.html