Writing out a file

No problem – just create spWriteStringToFile and try:

alter PROCEDURE spWriteStringToFile
 (
@String Varchar(max), --8000 in SQL Server 2000
@Path VARCHAR(255),
@Filename VARCHAR(100)

--
)
AS
DECLARE  @objFileSystem int
        ,@objTextStream int,
  @objErrorObject int,
  @strErrorMessage Varchar(1000),
     @Command varchar(1000),
     @hr int,
  @fileAndPath varchar(80)

set nocount on

select @strErrorMessage='opening the File System Object'
EXECUTE @hr = sp_OACreate  'Scripting.FileSystemObject' , @objFileSystem OUT

Select @FileAndPath=@path+'\'+@filename
if @HR=0 Select @objErrorObject=@objFileSystem , @strErrorMessage='Creating file "'+@FileAndPath+'"'
if @HR=0 execute @hr = sp_OAMethod   @objFileSystem   , 'CreateTextFile'
 , @objTextStream OUT, @FileAndPath,2,True

if @HR=0 Select @objErrorObject=@objTextStream, 
 @strErrorMessage='writing to the file "'+@FileAndPath+'"'
if @HR=0 execute @hr = sp_OAMethod  @objTextStream, 'Write', Null, @String

if @HR=0 Select @objErrorObject=@objTextStream, @strErrorMessage='closing the file "'+@FileAndPath+'"'
if @HR=0 execute @hr = sp_OAMethod  @objTextStream, 'Close'

if @hr<>0
 begin
 Declare 
  @Source varchar(255),
  @Description Varchar(255),
  @Helpfile Varchar(255),
  @HelpID int
 
 EXECUTE sp_OAGetErrorInfo  @objErrorObject, 
  @source output,@Description output,@Helpfile output,@HelpID output
 Select @strErrorMessage='Error whilst '
   +coalesce(@strErrorMessage,'doing something')
   +', '+coalesce(@Description,'')
 raiserror (@strErrorMessage,16,1)
 end
EXECUTE  sp_OADestroy @objTextStream
EXECUTE sp_OADestroy @objTextStream 

execute spWriteStringToFile 'This article describes how to fully access the
local filesystem from SQL Server. It shows a
way of reading and writing data to file, and
accessing the details of the server's
filesystem using OLE Automation to access
the filesystem object'
, 'MyPath','MyFileName'