I found a bat script on the internet which exports a query from SQL with a header row and into a tab delimited csv file. The script works great, however, I need the file format to be a comma separated file rather than tabular.
I have had a bit of a play around with the BCP parts of the script, but it doesn’t work. Does anyone have any ideas?
@ECHO OFF
REM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
REM Generic script for exporting data to file from SQL Server using a SQL query.
REM The resulting file will be tab separated with newline as the row delimiter.
REM A log file is generated and kept in case of an error or when in debug mode.
REM See command syntax for details.
REM
REM History:
REM 20120327 Lars Rönnbäck CREATED
REM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
:constants
SET myCodePage=ACP
:variables
SET theQuery=SELECT [D-U-N-S Number], [Company Name], [Street Address Line 1], [Street Address Line 2], [Street Address Line 3], [Street Address Line 4], Town, [County (Actual)], [Full Postcode], [Telephone Number] FROM B2B_Jan13.dbo.DATA_HQ_1_Site_Level
SET theFile=C:\B2B_Matching_Automation\Temp_Files\Sites.csv
SET theServer=localhost
SET theDebug=%~4
SET /a aRandomNumber=%random%%%1000
FOR /F "usebackq tokens=1-7* delims=.:/,- " %%a IN (`ECHO %DATE%_%TIME%`) DO (SET myStartTime=%%a%%b%%c%%d%%e%%f%%g)
SET myColumnQuery="select top 0 * into [#columns_%myStartTime%_%aRandomNumber%] from (%theQuery%) q; select stuff((select char(9) + c.name from tempdb.sys.columns c where c.object_id = t.object_id order by c.column_id for XML path(''), type).value('.', 'varchar(max)'), 1,1,'') AS Header from tempdb.sys.tables t where t.name like '#columns_%myStartTime%_%aRandomNumber%%%'"
SET myHeaderFile=%theFile%.%aRandomNumber%.header
SET myDataFile=%theFile%.%aRandomNumber%.data
SET myLogFile=%theFile%.%myStartTime%_%aRandomNumber%.log
:checks
IF "%theQuery%"=="" (
GOTO syntax
)
IF "%theFile%"=="" (
GOTO syntax
)
IF "%theServer%"=="" (
SET theServer=%COMPUTERNAME%
)
:information
ECHO Start Time: %myStartTime% >> "%myLogFile%" 2>&1
ECHO Random Number: %aRandomNumber% >> "%myLogFile%" 2>&1
ECHO File: %theFile% >> "%myLogFile%" 2>&1
ECHO Server Name: %theServer% >> "%myLogFile%" 2>&1
ECHO Query: >> "%myLogFile%" 2>&1
ECHO. >> "%myLogFile%" 2>&1
ECHO %theQuery% >> "%myLogFile%" 2>&1
:export
BCP %myColumnQuery% queryout "%myHeaderFile%" -T -S "%theServer%" -a 65535 -c -C %myCodePage% -q >> "%myLogFile%" 2>&1
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO error
BCP "%theQuery%" queryout "%myDataFile%" -T -S "%theServer%" -a 65535 -c -C %myCodePage% -q >> "%myLogFile%" 2>&1
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO error
ECHO. >> "%myLogFile%" 2>&1
ECHO Merging files... >> "%myLogFile%" 2>&1
ECHO. >> "%myLogFile%" 2>&1
COPY /A "%myHeaderFile%" + "%myDataFile%" "%theFile%" /B /Y >> "%myLogFile%" 2>&1
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO error
:cleanup
DEL "%myHeaderFile%" >NUL 2>&1
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO error
DEL "%myDataFile%" >NUL 2>&1
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO error
IF /I NOT [%theDebug%]==[Y] (
DEL "%myLogFile%"
)
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO error
GOTO end
:error
ECHO
ECHO ERROR: An export error has occured!
IF NOT [%myLogFile: =%]==[] (
ECHO Details can be found in:
ECHO %myLogFile%
)
ECHO
EXIT /B 1
:syntax
ECHO.
ECHO SYNTAX: %0 "sql query" "output file" [server] [Y]
ECHO -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ECHO You must specify an SQL query and an output file name in which the results of
ECHO the query will be stored. Specifying a server is optional and defaults to the
ECHO server you are executing on. If a fourth argument is given as Y a log file of
ECHO the command outputs will be saved in the same folder as the output file.
ECHO -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
:end
REM This is the end.
Take a look at the -t Option of the BCP Command.
Found Here
I’ve not used this myself but maybe that will point you in the right direction.