How to execute an .SQL script file using c#

I’m sure this question has been answered already, however I was unable to find an answer using the search tool.

Using c# I’d like to run a .sql file. The sql file contains multiple sql statements, some of which are broken over multiple lines. I tried reading in the file and tried executing the file using ODP.NET … however I don’t think ExecuteNonQuery is really designed to do this.

So I tried using sqlplus via spawning a process … however unless I spawned the process with UseShellExecute set to true sqlplus would hang and never exit. Here’s the code that DOESN’T WORK.

Process p = new Process();
p.StartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
p.StartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
p.StartInfo.FileName = "sqlplus";
p.StartInfo.Arguments = string.Format("xx/xx@{0} @{1}", in_database, s);
p.StartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;

bool started = p.Start();
p.WaitForExit();

WaitForExit never returns …. Unless I set UseShellExecute to true. A side effect of UseShellExecute is that you can no capture the redirected output.

Answer

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo;
using Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Common;
using System.IO;
using System.Data.SqlClient;

public partial class ExcuteScript : System.Web.UI.Page
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        string sqlConnectionString = @"Integrated Security=SSPI;Persist Security Info=False;Initial Catalog=ccwebgrity;Data Source=SURAJITSQLEXPRESS";

        string script = File.ReadAllText(@"E:Project DocsMX462-PDMX756_ModMappings1.sql");

        SqlConnection conn = new SqlConnection(sqlConnectionString);

        Server server = new Server(new ServerConnection(conn));

        server.ConnectionContext.ExecuteNonQuery(script);
    }
}