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

To achieve this using sqlcmd you need to use the Tab character like so: \t An example query exporting a single sql database table into a text file using a tab delimiter is as follows:

sqlcmd -S ServerName -d databaseTableName -Q "SELECT * FROM TABLE_NAME" -o C:\backups\tab_delimiter_bakup.txt -s"\t"