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I am trying to export 260+ column query to Excel from SSMS 2005.
When I finish up the wizard, I get the “Too many fields defined” error.
Is there any way of getting around this?
I suppose I can run that query via New Query and copy and paste to Excel but it doesn’t copy over the column names.
Thanks
This seems to be a problem of your version of Excel other than SQL Server. If you have Excel 2003 (or an older version), then you only have 256 columns, so you won’t be able to “get around this”. For Excel 2007+, you shouldn’t have a problem at all. By the way, you can still select all records after you run your query, right-click in the results, and select “copy with headers” to get the column names.