Re: Kickstart script on server?

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From: Aaron Bertrand - MVP (aaron_at_TRASHaspfaq.com)
Date: 05/03/04 

Date: Mon, 3 May 2004 09:27:59 -0400

How about this. Have a scheduled task in windows, that checks a database
every five minutes. If a flag says 1, run the VBS script and set the flag
to 0.

Then, you can kickstart it by hitting an ASP page that connects to the same
database and sets the flag to 1. 

-- 
Aaron Bertrand
SQL Server MVP
http://www.aspfaq.com/
"Lasse Edsvik" <lasse@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:OVcPNnOMEHA.2628@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Hello
>
> I have a page that mails my customers and it times out...... I need some
way
> to store it as .vbs and just kickstart it from my asp-page so it'll run in
> background.
>
> could you guys show me some code on how to do that? I dont have
> visual-studio or anything like that so it's got to be "simple" without any
> additional com+ programming or anything like that.
>
> TIA
> /Lasse
>
>

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