Using SQLCMD to export SQL Server Data as Comma Seperated Values

I have doing a couple of posts on SQLCMD recently (here and here) and have received some interesting questions too. One of the questions that caught my attention was to export SQL Server Data as CSV’s using SQLCMD.

Here’s the query to so do:

sqlcmd -S Suprotim-PC -d Northwind -E -Q "SELECT CustomerID, CompanyName, ContactName from Customers" -o "D:\MyData.csv" -s","

This query extracts data from 3 columns from the Customers table of the Northwind database and saves it in D:\MyData.csv

After running the command, here’s the output received

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5 comments:

  1. UnknownJanuary 25, 2010 at 10:23 AM

    There's an easier way to export a CSV with BCP. Or you could use a script like this one ! http://www.pollusbrodeur.com/wiki/ow.asp?CSV.BAT

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  2. Suprotim AgarwalJanuary 26, 2010 at 12:03 AM

    Thanks Pollus. I will check it out!

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  3. Dinesh Dattatray VisheJuly 9, 2012 at 12:49 AM

    Great If i want sqlcmd result in some sql table then ??
    what to do ??
    Pleasew help me...

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  4. Dinesh Dattatray VisheJuly 9, 2012 at 12:50 AM

    If i want sqlcmd query result in MSSQL table then what to do??
    Please help me...

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  5. UnknownJuly 9, 2012 at 8:07 AM

    If you need to push a query result in a MS SQL table, all you need to do is use either: SELECT...INTO or INSERT...FROM, depending if the destination table exists or not. Here's an example: SQLCMD -Q "SELECT * INTO TableResult FROM MyTable"

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