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starnold
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Posted - 2005-07-06 : 05:56:04
I have created a job in my SQL DB to run every month. Now this job relies on a certain file arriving in a certain location. How can I make this job start when the file has appeared in that location?

nr
SQLTeam MVY

12543 Posts

Posted - 2005-07-06 : 11:59:30
Just run it in a job that checks the folder.
See
http://www.nigelrivett.net/SQLTsql/ImportTextFiles.html


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