Question

In my Java program, I am trying to execute a bunch of SQL scripts using sqlcmd via getRuntime.exec().

Earlier, I had been using osql this way –

osql -n -S SERVER -U sa -P PASSWORD -q "SET NOCOUNT ON" -i "INPUTSCRIPT.sql"

However, in the case of sqlcmd, the -i and -q switches are mutually exclusive. How do I do this in sqlcmd?

Note:

1. I’d rather not modify the SQL scripts to include SET NOCOUNT ON in
   each file.

2. There’s already been a very similar question here. That solution discusses setting environment variables. Is that possible using Java?

Answer 1

You can specify multiple scripts for the i switch so you can do this:

sqlcmd ... -i SetNoCountOn.sql,MyScript1.sql,MyScript2.sql

That is, create a an extra script that just has SET NOCOUNT ON