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Export pipe delimited data without using dts or ssis

  • June 26, 2012 at 2:11 pm

    #258590

    Does anyone have some t-sql to export the results of a query in pipe delimited format? Would powershell be better?

  • June 26, 2012 at 2:23 pm

    #1505842

    i believe your options are to use bcp, CLR or powershell

    bcp + TSQL isgoing to require opening up xp_cmdShell.

    EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_cmdshell 'bcp "SELECT object_name(object_id) As TbLName,name as ColName FROM SandBox.sys.columns ORDER BY object_name(object_id), column_id" queryout C:\Data\Objects.txt -t"|" -c -T '

    you can use a CLR to write to disk from TSQL, I have an example i threw on codeplex: http://sqlclrexport.codeplex.com/

    that's going to require you to install a CLR, which may or may not be what you are after.

    EXECUTE CLR_ExportQueryToCustomDelim @QueryCommand = 'SELECT * FROM @TableVariable',

    @FilePath = 'C:\Data\',

    @FileName = '\Results_export.txt',

    @IncludeHeaders = 1,

    @CustomDelimiter = '|'

    and of course powershell, as you already suggested.

    i don't have a power shell example available in my snippets yet, sorry.

    Lowell

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  • June 26, 2012 at 3:35 pm

    #1505876

    Lowell (6/26/2012)

    i believe your options are to use bcp, CLR or powershell

    bcp + TSQL isgoing to require opening up xp_cmdShell.

    BWAA-HAAA!!!! I use xp_CmdShell to run PowerShell from T-SQL. 😀

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  • June 26, 2012 at 4:15 pm

    #1505906

    Jeff Moden (6/26/2012)

    Lowell (6/26/2012)

    i believe your options are to use bcp, CLR or powershell

    bcp + TSQL isgoing to require opening up xp_cmdShell.

    BWAA-HAAA!!!! I use xp_CmdShell to run PowerShell from T-SQL. 😀

    ok but can you use xp_CmdShell to run Powershell, which in turn calls bcp? 😀

    That's the ticket!

    Lowell

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