Create comma separated file (csv) from access - scheduled daily from windows

Question

I would like to create a vbs file to export an access table in a csv file (comma separated). I saw this coda from Remou. It works, but it create tab separated. Can anyone he

Answer 1

It is not difficult to create a standard CSV

Set cn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")

cn.Open "Provider=Microsoft.Ace.OLEDB.12.0;Data Source=z:\Docs\test.accdb"

sSQL = "select * into " 
sSQL= sSQL & "[text;database=z:\docs\;FMT=Delimited;HDR=Yes].[csvfile.csv]"
sSQL= sSQL & " from table1"

cn.Execute sSQL

A VBScript file will run quite well from the Task Scheduler.

Edit re comments

If the decimal separator in your locale is a comma, you may run into problems. You can override the Windows locale settings with a schema.ini file, you need only include the name of the file and items you wish to change:

[csvfile.csv]
DecimalSymbol=.

A full list is available form Microsoft: Schema.ini

There is no reason why you should not write the schema.ini in your code prior to export, except be sure not to overwrite existing schemas -- you can append.

You will get information on your system locale from the windows control panel: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-IE/windows7/Change-the-system-locale