How to accomplish what I am trying to do?

Hello,

I need to write a package the does the following, and not sure the best approach:

The package will read a list of stored procedure names stored in a table. Then, for each stored procedure name, I need to run the stored procedure and save the output to a named file.

That is, run sp1 and output to file sp1.txt. That is, I need the name to reflect the name of the stored procedure.

Also, each time I create the new output file, I need to delete the old named file.

I'm sure this is a fairly straightforward task, but not sure how to do the "dynamic" file naming part.

Any help appreciated!!

Thank you

You can use an expression on your flat file connection manager to change the file name at runtime. Just set the ConnectionString property. To replace the file, make sure your Flat File destination has Overwrite data enabled.

Do all your stored procs return the same resultset? If not, using a data flow will probably not work for you, so you wouldn't be able to use a Flat File destination.

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Hi John,

You say that if my procs do not return the same result set a data flow will probably not work?

What can I use instead?

I am having serious problems trying to get the output from my stored procedure loops to flat files.

That is, I added a data flow task to the foreach loop, so that each execsql task will run a stored proc then write the output to a file. But it seems this is not possible?

I find it hard to believe... but is there a workaround?

|||You could use a custom script task inside your loop to execute the procedures, read the results, and write them to a file.