As mentioned earlier, a batch file contains a series of DOS commands and are used to automate the frequently performed tasks. Thus, you don’t have to repeatedly write the same commands. Remember the ...

I've always been the batch file guy wherever I go. I had a .bat script for almost every situation: cleaning a folder, temporarily zipping files, and quick server checks. I could do so much with .bat ...

If you’re a system administrator or someone who relies on batch files to automate tasks, you’ve probably encountered situations where things go wrong because a script gets changed while it’s running.

Say I had a script to take on-line backups of a database (in my case Citrix data store in Access format) and I wanted to script the renaming of the file to include the current date (and possibly ...

A Windows Command Prompt is a screen where you type in commands that you would like to execute. The command prompt is very useful if you want to use batch files, basic scripting, or to perform various ...

Hi all,<BR><BR>I am trying to run a sql script inside a .bat file. <BR><BR>If I do this manually:<BR><BR>sqlplus user/pass@dbname<BR>@<script.sql><BR><BR>How do I automate this? Basically, I want to ...