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I am trying to export a fairly large number of image files, stored internally in an SQL database as binary data.
Being fairly new to writing stored procedures in SQL, I have come across a couple of very useful guides on how this can be archived, but I seem to be missing something.
I am running SQL Server 2008 R2 locally, and I am trying to write the files to a folder on my C:\ drive.
Here is the buisness part of what I have so far:
BEGIN
DECLARE @cmd VARCHAR(8000)
DECLARE @result int
DECLARE curExportBinaryDocs CURSOR FAST_FORWARD FOR
SELECT 'BCP "SELECT Photograph_Data FROM [ALBSCH Trial].[dbo].[Photograph] WHERE Photograph_ID = '
+ CAST(Photograph_ID AS VARCHAR(500)) + '" queryout "' + @OutputFilePath
+ CAST(Photograph_ID AS VARCHAR(500)) + '.jpg"' + ' -n -T'
FROM dbo.Photograph
OPEN curExportBinaryDocs
FETCH NEXT FROM curExportBinaryDocs INTO @cmd
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
--PRINT @cmd
EXEC @result = xp_cmdshell @cmd
FETCH NEXT FROM curExportBinaryDocs INTO @cmd
END
CLOSE curExportBinaryDocs
DEALLOCATE curExportBinaryDocs
END
'@result' is always being set to '1' (failed) after the xp_cmdshell call. All the table names/fields are correct, so I suspect there is something wrong with my BCP call, but I am not sure what to try next.
Any help or advice would be very welcome.