rpt

I want to export my big SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) query result (2.5m lines, 9 fields) as .csv or comma-delimited .txt (with headings). (MS SQL Server 2005 Management Studio.) So that I can then either read it line-by-line into VBA program (to do certain calculations on the data) or do queries on it in Excel (e.g. with Microsoft Query). The calculations are complicated and I prefer to do it somewhere else than SSMS. If I choose ‘query result to text’ in SSMS and a small answer (few lines e.g. up to 200k) I could of course simply copy and paste to a text editor. For my large answer

I have a rpt dump that one of my colleagues gave. I need to open this file as a SQL Table (I presume that this is possible since he generated the rpt dump from the SQL Table). How do I do that. I am using SQL Server Management Studio. I can also open the rpt file as a separate file in SSMS. Though this answer is late, I didn't see a canonical answer to the problem of opening the .rpt file format and writing it to a SQL table. In SQL Server Management Studio in Object Explorer, right click on the database you want to load the file into and choose Tasks... Import Data. Choose Flat File Source,