What is the purpose of osql.exe? I thought it was just a tool that an admin would use to access an Oracle instance data. I am trying to figure out if osql.exe is needed on a system where no user interaction is performed on the database(no development). Is it needed when a user fills out [...]
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BCP works ok if you want to store the contents of a table to text file. If you want the contents of a stored procedure it gets complicated. In summary, you must use the stored procedure to fill a table, then use BCP to export the table, and finally you need to clear the table. [...]
At one point in time I was tasked with running over 70 databases on more than a dozen servers without any of the costly third-party tools that exist to accomplish such tasks, and I often get asked how can you handle such large numbers of databases. This is a short article that will show you [...]