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Steve Knowles
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Run SQL from Agent Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 18 Oct 07 3:13 PM

How do I run an SQL statement as an Agent? Do I need to create an SQL script in the Architech then when configuring the Agent choose SQL as the action and browse to the script for the argument? If so, is the SQL script just the sql statement in the script? I have not gone down this road before.. thanks

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Eric Hobbs
Posts: 28

Re: Run SQL from Agent Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 19 Oct 07 3:44 AM

Hi Steve,

There are a number of ways to achive this, I think. One way I have used before is to write a legacy VB script and use the DOSql("some statement", "0", "") cmd. That works for real simple stuff.

If your trying to achieve a more complex task, I'd really recomend ditiching the agent alltogether and using a DTS or SSIS task, since the scheduling is more reliable in my experience than the Agent runner. The only problem with this approach is that any changes will not sync to remotes. I've tried using the SLX OLEDB provider as the connection in DTS before but it returns errors on anything but Select statements.

I've never tried just createing a SQL script in architect and scheduling that. Would be interested to know if it works or not.

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Bob (RJ)Ledger
Posts: 1103

Re: Run SQL from Agent Your last visit to this thread was on 1/1/1970 12:00:00 AM

Posted: 19 Oct 07 7:31 AM

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Originally posted by Steve Knowles

How do I run an SQL statement as an Agent? Do I need to create an SQL script in the Architech then when configuring the Agent choose SQL as the action and browse to the script for the argument? If so, is the SQL script just the sql statement in the script? I have not gone down this road before.. thanks

Yep.. This is an area of SalesLogix that is VERY powerful and VERY underutilized.

Just create the SQL (EX: UPDATE CONTACT SET STATUS = 'New' Where STATUS = 'NEW Contact')
and in the Agent setup browse to it.. schedule it.. enable it.. and it will do it's thing...
NO scripting, etc.... But remember it will execute on remotes as well!

We use it to auto-fix the situation where User_Activity records are missing.
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rjl

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