How to export image field to file?

Question

I am using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio to connect to a database. In it I\'ve got a table, one column of which is an Image column containing file data. Another col

Answer 1

From mkader at codeproject:

EXEC sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1;  
GO  
RECONFIGURE;  
GO
EXEC sp_configure 'xp_cmdshell',1  
GO  
RECONFIGURE;  
GO

Then dump a format file:

Declare @sql varchar(500)
SET @sql = 'bcp DBName.dbo.tblTableName format nul -T -n -f C:\testblob.fmt -S ' + @@SERVERNAME
select @sql 
EXEC master.dbo.xp_CmdShell @sql 

My format file looked like this:

10.0
12
1       SQLINT              0       4       ""   1     my_tablecol_id                                  ""
2       SQLINT              1       4       ""   2     my_tablecol0                                   ""
3       SQLCHAR             2       256     ""   3     my_tablecol1                                SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
4       SQLCHAR             2       256     ""   4     my_tablecol2                                SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
5       SQLCHAR             2       256     ""   5     my_tablecol3                         SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
6       SQLCHAR             2       2048    ""   6     my_tablecol4                                SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
7       SQLIMAGE            4       0       ""   7     my_imagecol                                     ""
8       SQLCHAR             2       2048    ""   8     my_tablecol6                            SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
9       SQLINT              1       4       ""   9     my_tablecol7                                      ""
10      SQLINT              1       4       ""   10    my_tablecol8                                    ""
11      SQLINT              1       4       ""   11    my_tablecol9                               ""
12      SQLBIT              1       1       ""   12    my_tablecol10                             ""

I then edited the format file like so:

10.0
1
1       SQLIMAGE            0       0       ""   1     my_imagecol                                     ""

And then ran this SQL in SSMS:

Declare @mynum int
Declare @sql varchar(500)
SET @mynum = 49 -- something meaningful only to me
SET @sql = 'BCP "SELECT my_imagecol FROM DBName.dbo.tblTableName where my_tablecol_id=@mynum" QUERYOUT C:\myfilename.docx -T -fC:\testblob.fmt -S ' + @@SERVERNAME
EXEC master.dbo.xp_CmdShell @sql

This worked really well, any kind of data in the image column works.