Exporting data from SQL Server Express to CSV (need quoting and escaping)

Question

I\'ve spent 2 days trying to export a 75,000 row table containing a large text field of user input data from a SQL server installation. This data contains every plain ascii

Answer 1

Here's the essence of a script I use to do just this:

require 'rubygems'
require 'active_record'
require 'tiny_tds'
require 'activerecord-sqlserver-adapter'
require 'acts_as_reportable'
require 'ruport'

ActiveRecord::Base.logger = Logger.new("log/debug.log")
ActiveRecord::Base.establish_connection(
  :adapter    => 'sqlserver',
  :mode       => 'dblib',
  :dataserver => 'servername',
  :username   => 'username',
  :password   => 'password',
  :timeout    => '60000'
)

class Table1 < ActiveRecord::Base
  set_table_name 'table_name'
  set_primary_key 'table_id'
  acts_as_reportable
end

Table1.report_table(:all).save_as("finished/table1.csv")

Hope it helps!