Re: want to run osql on a server that has no SQL Client installed ?

From: Hassan (fatima_ja_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/19/04 

Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 21:16:57 -0800

Actually while waiting for a reply, I copied just the osql.exe from another
PC and it worked.. :)

"David Gugick" <davidg-nospam@imceda.com> wrote in message
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> Hassan wrote:
> > I want to run osql and dont have SQL Client installed. Can i just
> > copy an osql.exe from a machine that has one and will it work ? I
> > dont need EM or QA or anything of that sort .. Just want to call a
> > batch file that fires osql. Using SQL 2000
> >
> > Thanks
>
> How about copying the query file to the server and running it from
> there. Assuming you had the proper license for the client tools on the
> PC in question, you could try copying over the osql.exe file, but I'm
> guessing there are a lot of dependent files.Why not install the SQL
> Client Tools?
>
> --
> David Gugick
> Imceda Software
> www.imceda.com
>