Question

I have a stored procedure that does a select and returns the results. I would like thos results to be in .csv format. NOT a csv file, a string in csv format. Also, I am not looking for any menu clicks or selections from management studio. This must be done inside the stored procedure call. What is the correct way to do this?

Answer 1

This might work for you. Column headers is optional:

select 'NVarCharColumn1Header,IntColumn2Header' 
            + char(13) + char(10) 
        + (select NVarCharColumn1 
                    + ',' + cast(IntColumn2 as nvarchar) 
                            + char(13) + char(10)
            from Table1
            for xml path(''), type).value('(./text())[1]','nvarchar(max)')