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

I'm curious why no one has suggested using SSIS (SQL Server Integration Services) for this process? All of the wizards and tools for Import/Export from within SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio) are absolutely not intended to be comprehensive (and they certainly are not, and yes, there is a lot that Microsoft should have to answer for with the limitations). But SSIS is a very full-featured ETL tool designed to tackle problems exactly like this one. Learning curve can be a little steep, but exporting a table to a comma/quote delimited csv file is not particularly hard.

Might need this add on for Visual Studio in order to have a dev environment to create a package: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=42313 (link is for VS 2013, other links are available for other versions of VS).