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

Use dynamic sql with CHAR(9):

SET @cmd ='SQLCMD -S MyServer -d MyDatabase -E -W -Q "SELECT * FROM MyTable" -s"' + CHAR(9) + '" -o "MyFilePath.txt"'