How to use TAB as column separator in SQLCMD

Question

SQLCMD supports the -s parameter to specify the column separator, but I couldn\'t figure how how to represent the tab (CHAR(9)) character. I have tried the following but bo

Answer 1

Found a good answer here: SQLCMD outfile as tab delimited text file

1. Open Notepad
2. Paste this: sqlcmd -S (local) -E -s"" -Q "select * from sys.dm_exec_query_stats" -o MyOutput.txt -h-1 -W
3. Highlight , then hit the Tab key
4. Save the file as MyBatch.bat
5. Run MyBatch.bat