Question

I can quite easily dump data into a text file such as:

sqlcmd -S myServer -d myDB -E -Q 'select col1, col2, col3 from SomeTable'       -o 'MyData.txt' 

However, I have looked at the help files for SQLCMD but have not seen an option specifically for CSV.

Is there a way to dump data from a table into a CSV text file using SQLCMD?

Answer 1

You can run something like this:

sqlcmd -S MyServer -d myDB -E -Q "select col1, col2, col3 from SomeTable"         -o "MyData.csv" -h-1 -s"," -w 700 

• -h-1 removes column name headers from the result
• -s"," sets the column separator to ,
• -w 700 sets the row width to 700 chars (this will need to be as wide as the longest row or it will wrap to the next line)