How to export SQL Server 2005 query to CSV

Question

I want to export some SQL Server 2005 data to CSV format (comma-separated with quotes). I can think of a lot of complicated ways to do it, but I want to do it the right<

Answer 1

I think the simplest way to do this is from Excel.

1. Open a new Excel file.
2. Click on the Data tab
3. Select Other Data Sources
4. Select SQL Server
5. Enter your server name, database, table name, etc.

If you have a newer version of Excel you could bring the data in from PowerPivot and then insert this data into a table.

Answer 2

You can use following Node.js module to do it with a breeze:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/mssql-to-csv

Answer 3

SSIS is a very good way to do this. This can be then scheduled using SQL Server Agent jobs.

Answer 4

I had to do one more thing than what Sijin said to get it to add quotes properly in SQL Server Management Studio 2005. Go to

Tools->Options->Query Results->Sql Server->Results To Grid

Put a check next to this option:

Quote strings containing list separators when saving .csv results

Note: the above method will not work for SSMS 2005 Express! As far as I know there's no way to quote the fields when exporting results to .csv using SSMS 2005 Express.

Answer 5

set nocount on

the quotes are there, use -w2000 to keep each row on one line.

Answer 6

If it fits your requirements, you can use bcp on the command line if you do this frequently or want to build it into a production process.

Here's a link describing the configuration.