How to run a sql script using C#

Question

I have a sql script to create a new database which i need to create when our product is installed. For this i need to fire the script using c#. DB is sql-server 2005 express. Plz help....

The sql script is as follows:

USE [master]
GO
/****** Object:  Database [Jai]    Script Date: 02/12/2010 11:01:25 ******/
CREATE DATABASE [Jai] ON  PRIMARY 
( NAME = N'Jai', FILENAME = N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\DATA\Jai.mdf' , SIZE = 3072KB , MAXSIZE = UNLIMITED, FILEGROWTH = 1024KB )
 LOG ON 
( NAME = N'Jai_log', FILENAME = N'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\DATA\Jai_log.ldf' , SIZE = 1024KB , MAXSIZE = 2048GB , FILEGROWTH = 10%)
 COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
GO
EXEC dbo.sp_dbcmptlevel @dbname=N'Jai', @new_cmptlevel=90
GO
IF (1 = FULLTEXTSERVICEPROPERTY('IsFullTextInstalled'))
begin
EXEC [Jai].[dbo].[sp_fulltext_database] @action = 'disable'
end
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Jai] SET ANSI_NULL_DEFAULT OFF 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Jai] SET ANSI_NULLS OFF 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Jai] SET ANSI_PADDING OFF 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Jai] SET ANSI_WARNINGS OFF 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Jai] SET ARITHABORT OFF 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Jai] SET AUTO_CLOSE OFF 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Jai] SET AUTO_CREATE_STATISTICS ON 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Jai] SET AUTO_SHRINK OFF 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Jai] SET AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS ON 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Jai] SET CURSOR_CLOSE_ON_COMMIT OFF 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Jai] SET CURSOR_DEFAULT  GLOBAL 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Jai] SET CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL OFF 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Jai] SET NUMERIC_ROUNDABORT OFF 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Jai] SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER OFF 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Jai] SET RECURSIVE_TRIGGERS OFF 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Jai] SET  ENABLE_BROKER 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Jai] SET AUTO_UPDATE_STATISTICS_ASYNC OFF 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Jai] SET DATE_CORRELATION_OPTIMIZATION OFF 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Jai] SET TRUSTWORTHY OFF 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Jai] SET ALLOW_SNAPSHOT_ISOLATION OFF 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Jai] SET PARAMETERIZATION SIMPLE 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Jai] SET  READ_WRITE 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Jai] SET RECOVERY FULL 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Jai] SET  MULTI_USER 
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Jai] SET PAGE_VERIFY CHECKSUM  
GO
ALTER DATABASE [Jai] SET DB_CHAINING OFF 

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ADD --> A good link where the solution of it is given is here.

Answer 1

Have a look at

• Run a .sql script file in C#
• How to execute an .SQL script file using c#
• Run a .sql script files in C#

Answer 2

Here is a post from MSDN explaining how to do it using SMO:

using System.Data.SqlClient;
using System.IO;
using Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Common;
using Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo;

namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            string sqlConnectionString = "Data Source=(local);Initial Catalog=AdventureWorks;Integrated Security=True";
            FileInfo file = new FileInfo("C:\\myscript.sql");
            string script = file.OpenText().ReadToEnd();
            SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(sqlConnectionString);
            Server server = new Server(new ServerConnection(conn));
            server.ConnectionContext.ExecuteNonQuery(script);
        }
    }
}

Answer 3

When I need to run sql scripts containing GO statements I usually read the entire file into a string and split it into a string array using GO as the delimiter.

I then connect to the database and run each statement in order.

It's quite easy and works well. Just make sure to keep your database connection open while running all statements. Also you may consider running them all in a transaction.