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Asked: 2026-05-13T16:13:26+00:00

I am having an issue with SQL Server 2005’s BCP utility. I am running

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I am having an issue with SQL Server 2005’s BCP utility. I am running SQL Server Express 2005 on Windows Vista. I am trying to create a non-XML format file for some tables in my database.

I run the following code:

bcp 'jProd_000-1'.users format nul -T -f users.fmt

I get the following error:

An Error occurred while processing the command line

It doesn’t display any other helpful information with regards to the error. I also used a SQL Server login instead of the ‘-T’. Can anyone provide any insight? What am I doing wrong?

Thank you!

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  1. Editorial Team

    I just figured it out… yeah rookie mistake. It had to do with the database name I used. Aparently there’s no way to use BCP on database names that contain “-“‘s, even if you put the database name in double or single quotes. Thank you for the response!

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