Execute SQL script from command line

Question

I need to alter a database using a batch file, for a simple example, drop a table. I´m using local SQL Express (SQL Server 2008 R2) with user sa and its passwor

Answer 1

You can do like this

sqlcmd -S  -U sa -P sapassword -i inputquery_file_name -o outputfile_name

From your command prompt run sqlcmd /? to get all the options you can use with sqlcmd utility