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To upgrade a SQL Server Database Engine failover cluster, you must run the Setup on one failover cluster node at a time, starting with the passive nodes. Setup determines when to fail over to the upgraded node, depending on the total number of nodes in the failover cluster instance, and the number of nodes that have already been upgraded. When half of the nodes or more have already been upgraded, Setup by default will cause a failover to an upgraded node.

Use of this parameter is as follows:. It will be used if this parameter is not specified. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Is this page helpful? Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? Note Depending on how you received the software for example, through Microsoft volume licensing , your use of the software may be subject to additional terms and conditions.

Note For local installations, you must run Setup as an administrator. Note The relational server values support the additional terminating backslash formats backslash or two backslash characters for the path. Important All failover cluster installation commands require an underlying Windows cluster. Note To add more nodes after the installation, use Add Node action.

Note When you use a managed service account, virtual account, or a built-in account, you should not specify the corresponding password parameters. Submit and view feedback for This product This page. View all page feedback. In this article. Required to indicate the installation workflow. Supported values: Install. Suppresses the privacy notice statement. By using this flag, you are agreeing with the privacy notice.

Use this parameter to install the English version of SQL Server on a localized operating system when the installation media includes language packs for both English and the language corresponding to the operating system. Specify whether SQL Server setup should discover and include product updates. The valid values are True and False or 1 and 0. By default, SQL Server setup will include updates that are found.

Specify the location where SQL Server setup will obtain product updates. The valid values are "MU" to search Microsoft Update, a valid folder path, a relative path such as. Specifies the ConfigurationFile to use. Has no effect in SQL Server In older versions this specifies the error reporting for SQL Server. Specifies the components to install. For more information, see Feature Parameters below. Setup roles install SQL Server in a predetermined configuration. Specifies a nondefault installation directory for bit shared components.

Supported only on a bit system. Specifies a nondefault value for an InstanceID. Specifies a SQL Server instance name. For more information, see Instance Configuration. Specifies the account for the engine service. Specifies the password for the engine service account.

This parameter can be omitted when using a managed service account, virtual account, or built-in account. Specifies the startup mode for the PolyBase engine service: Automatic default , Disabled, and Manual. Specifies a port range with at least 6 ports for PolyBase services. Use this option if you are configuring a PolyBase Scale-out computational group including the head node.

Supported values: True , False. Specifies the product key for the edition of SQL Server. If this parameter is not specified, Evaluation is used. Specifies that Setup runs in a quiet mode without any user interface. This is used for unattended installations. Specifies that Setup runs and shows progress through the UI, but does not accept any input or show any error messages.

Specifies whether to present only the minimum number of dialog boxes during setup. In older versions this specifies feature usage reporting for SQL Server.

Supported values: Automatic Disabled Manual. Specifies the directory for Analysis Services backup files. Specifies the collation setting for Analysis Services. Only master keys stored in Windows Certificate Store are supported. The -g switch requires at least sqlcmd version To determine your version, execute sqlcmd -?

The -G switch requires at least sqlcmd version The -A option is not supported with the -G option. When you want to use an Azure Active Directory user name and password, you can provide the -G option and also use the user name and password by providing the -U and -P options.

For Azure Active Directory Integrated authentication, provide the -G option without a user name or password. For more information, see Active Directory Interactive Authentication. Azure AD interactive requires sqlcmd version To enable interactive authentication, provide -G option with user name -U only, without a password.

The following example exports data using Azure AD interactive mode indicating username where user represents an AAD account. Interactive mode requires a password to be manually entered, or for accounts with multi-factor authentication enabled, complete your configured MFA authentication method. In case an Azure AD user is a domain federated user using a Windows account, the user name required in the command-line, contains its domain account for example, joe contoso. If guest users exist in a specific Azure AD and are part of a group that exists in SQL Database that has database permissions to execute the sqlcmd command, their guest user alias is used for example, keith0 adventureworks.

Always start with the -G option followed by the -U option. The workstation name is listed in the hostname column of the sys. If this option is not specified, the default is the current computer name. This name can be used to identify different. The only currently supported value is ReadOnly. If -K is not specified, the sqlcmd utility will not support connectivity to a secondary replica in an Always On availability group.

If -M is not specified, -M is off. Passwords are case-sensitive. We do not recommend the use of the null password, but you can specify the null password by using a pair of contiguous double-quotation marks for the parameter value:. The password prompt is displayed by printing the password prompt to the console, as follows: Password:.

Therefore, passwords do not have to be hard-coded into batch files. At the command prompt, type:. Old scripts will continue to work. If the -P option is used with the -E option, an error message is generated. If the -P option is followed by more than one argument, an error message is generated and the program exits.

If no server computer is specified, sqlcmd connects to the default instance of SQL Server on the local computer. This option is required when you execute sqlcmd from a remote computer on the network.

For contained database users, you must provide the database name option -d. This means that sqlcmd and osql can be used next to each other without interference.

It also means that existing osql scripts will continue to work. If neither the -U option or the -P option is specified, sqlcmd tries to connect by using Microsoft Windows Authentication mode.

Authentication is based on the Windows account of the user who is running sqlcmd. If the -U option is used with the -E option described later in this article , an error message is generated. If the -U option is followed by more than one argument, an error message is generated and the program exits. The codepage number is a numeric value that specifies an installed Windows code page.

If no code pages are specified, sqlcmd will use the current code page for both input and output files, unless the input file is a Unicode file, in which case no conversion is required.

If the -u option has been specified, the output will always be little-endian Unicode. If no output file is specified, the output code page will be the console code page. This approach enables the output to be displayed correctly on the console. Multiple input files are assumed to be of the same code page. Unicode and non-Unicode input files can be mixed. Multiple files may be specified that will be read and processed in order. Do not use any spaces between file names. If one or more files do not exist, sqlcmd will exit.

If the file name is not valid, an error message is generated, and sqlcmd exits. The file output will be corrupted or incorrect. See the -f switch is also relevant to file formats. This file will be created if it does not exist. A file of the same name from a prior sqlcmd session will be overwritten. The file specified here is not the stdout file. If a stdout file is specified, this file will not be used.

If you do not specify a parameter or if you specify 0 , only error messages that have a severity level of 11 or higher are redirected. Has no effect if you use -o. By default, messages are sent to stdout. By default, these columns are displayed using the server's regional settings. Query Execution Options -e Writes input scripts to the standard output device stdout. By default, it is set to OFF. However, the translation occurs in the server. Scripting variables will not be expanded when they appear within a string.

Type sqlcmd to connect to the default instance of SQL Server on the local computer, and the contents of the Command Prompt window will be:. The contents of the Command Prompt window will be:. This indicates that sqlcmd has exited its session. You can use sqlcmd to execute database script files.

Script files are text files that contain a mix of Transact-SQL statements, sqlcmd commands, and scripting variables. For more information about how to script variables, see Use sqlcmd with Scripting Variables. The main difference is that sqlcmd reads through the input file without pause instead of waiting for a user to enter the statements, commands, and scripting variables. You can create a text file that contains Transact-SQL statements by using a text editor, such as Notepad.

Create a folder named MyFolder and then save the script as the file MyScript. Enter the following at the command prompt to run the script and put the output in MyOutput. In the following example, sqlcmd is used to connect to a server that has a blocking problem by using the dedicated administrator connection DAC. The following example shows how to execute a stored procedure by using sqlcmd.

Create the following stored procedure. An asynchronous version of ExecuteScalar , which executes the query and returns the first column of the first row in the result set returned by the query. All other columns and rows are ignored. An asynchronous version of ExecuteScalar , which executes the query asynchronously and returns the first column of the first row in the result set returned by the query. This is the asynchronous version of ExecuteScalar. The default implementation invokes the synchronous ExecuteScalar method and returns a completed task, blocking the calling thread.

Exceptions thrown by ExecuteScalar will be communicated via the returned Task Exception property. Retrieves the current lifetime service object that controls the lifetime policy for this instance. Returns an object that represents a service provided by the Component or by its Container.

Gets the Type of the current instance. Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. Creates a shallow copy of the current MarshalByRefObject object. Resets the CommandTimeout property to its default value.

Returns a String containing the name of the Component , if any. This method should not be overridden. Occurs when the component is disposed by a call to the Dispose method. Creates a new instance of an IDbDataParameter object. Gets the IDataParameterCollection. Gets or sets the DbTransaction within which this DbCommand object executes. Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. Sql Command Class Reference Is this page helpful?

Please rate your experience Yes No. Any additional feedback? Namespace: System. SqlClient Assembly: System. Note Nameless, also called ordinal, parameters are not supported by the. In this article.

Initiates the asynchronous execution of the Transact-SQL statement or stored procedure that is described by this SqlCommand and retrieves one or more results sets from the server.

Each call to BeginExecuteReader must be paired with a call to EndExecuteReader which finishes the operation, typically on a separate thread. Executes commands that return rows.