How to produce an csv output file from stored procedure in SQL Server

Question

Is it possible to generate a csv file from a stored procedure in SQL Server? I created my stored procedure and I want to stored some result as csv, does someone know how to

Answer 1

You can do this using OPENROWSET as suggested in this answer. Reposting Slogmeister Extrarodinare answer:

Use T-SQL

INSERT INTO OPENROWSET ('Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0','Text;Database=D:\;HDR=YES;FMT=Delimited','SELECT * FROM [FileName.csv]')
SELECT Field1, Field2, Field3 FROM DatabaseName

But, there are couple of caveats:

1. You need to have the Microsoft.ACE.OLEDB.12.0 provider available. The Jet 4.0 provider will work, too, but it's ancient, so I used this one instead.

2. The .CSV file will have to exist already. If you're using headers (HDR=YES), make sure the first line of the .CSV file is a delimited list of all the fields.