I thought it is a very simple task to export data in a view from SQL Server 2005 to a fixed width text file. But the wizard is a pain. The format is not correct. Does anybody know how to deal with it? or any better way to do that?
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I thought it is a very simple task to export data in a view from SQL Server 2005 to a fixed width text file. But the wizard is a pain. The format is not correct. Does anybody know how to deal with it? or any better way to do that?
Use bcp with queryout option http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms162802(SQL.90).aspx
Use a format file if you want fixed-width output
http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/brettk/archive/2006/07/06/10504.aspx
I just tried exporting in AdventureWorks, Fixed Width gave me a lot of issues too (compared to column delimiters) I had to ignore the GUID columns, not include column names in the first row, etc.. finally exported Sales.Customer table
Without BCP, you may have to look into SSIS or SQLCMD