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How I delete the backup files

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Xaplytz

Xaplytz

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Jun 26, 2000
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I make by code my owns backups to a file in the hard disk
When the file gets old I delete it manually. But
I would like to know if there ware some way to delete this file using a SQL- statement
thank
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Run this...

exec master..xp_cmdshell 'del c:\...\filename'

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