I know enough SQL to get me by with the few things I currently do in it (but would always like to know and do more). Anyway, I was just recently asked if I could come up with a way to automate the execution of a SQL query we currently manually run, and then have the results of that query output (instead of to the screen in SSMS) to a text file with the ".dat" extension. I've never automated a SQL query before nor have I had the results output to a file. Can anyone give me some pointers on how to tackle this?
The query currently calls to a stored procedure (which does all the work) and just executes it with some given dates from the query so I'm thinking the output will need to come from the stored procedure (and the code for output to a file added there?)