Sql server export file to csv

After everything is set, press the Next button:. For this example, the Copy data from one or more tables or views radio button is chosen. To continue, press the Next button:. Under the Configure Flat File Destination window, choose the table or view from the Source table or view drop down box for exporting data to the CSV file:.

To view which data will be exported to the CSV file, click the Preview button. The Preview Data window will appear with data that will be exported:. If you are satisfied with the preview data, click the Next button in order to continue with exporting data. The Save and Run Package window will appear. Leave settings as they are and click the Next button:.

The Complete Wizard window shows the list of choices that were made during of exporting process:. The last window shows information about exporting process, was it successful or not.

In this case, the exporting process was finished successfully:. On the image below, the ExportData. The bcp bulk copy program utility is used to copy data between SQL Server instance and data file.

Then type bcp? In our case, an error occurs:. As it can be seen from the error message box, the msodbcsql Now, when in the Command Prompt window, the bcp? The screen above shows all the different switches that can be used in bcp utility. In the Command Prompt window, type the word bcp followed by the name of the SQL table from which exporting data should be done by typing the following steps, first type the name of the database which contains the table from which you want to export data, followed by dot.

After the dot, type the schema name of the table, after the schema name, type dot and after the dot, type the table name which contains data for exporting e. AddressType :. Also, the queryout command exists which copies data from an SQL query to a specified file. The in command copies data from a file to a specified database table.

Now when the csv file is specified, there are a few more switches that need to be included in order to export SQL Server data to CSV file. Then type the -c switch and, after that, type the -t switch to set the field terminator which will separate each column in an exported file. In the example, the comma , separator will be used:. At the end, enter a switch which determines how it will be accessed to the SQL Server.

In this example, the trusted connection -T switch will be used:. Now, when the Enter key is pressed, the similar message will appear with information about copied data:. To start creating a report server project first open SSDT. Go to File menu and under the New sub-menu, choose the Project option:. In the Name box, enter the name of the project e. ExportData and in the Location box, choose where the project will be created:. But what if we want to see the same data in other applications like Excel?

Read on to find out several methods for exporting data from a table to a CSV file. There are several different methods to do so. First, run SSMS. In the next step, expand the Database node and right-click on your database that contains the table product our database is store. Fill other fields like the name of the server, login, and password to the server, and choose the database storing the table you would like to export our table product is in the database store :.

Now, choose the destination file format. Fill the fields with the name of the file, the location, and the code page. In the next step, select either the option to transfer all data from the table or write an SQL query to do so. Going with the first option looks like this:. Close the wizard window and go to the file with the data from the table product.

You can find it in the catalogs in the user folder of the Windows OS. In the Object Explorer window, expand the Database node and select the database that contains our table product. Select all data from the table product :. In the result set, you see all data from the table. This file contains your data, but without the column names. This method is similar to the previous method. It also is based on SSMS and the result set, but the differences are in the choices you make from the menu.

Go to an empty CSV file and simply paste the content. We can use it to export data to a CSV file. The first word is the name of the tool, sqlcmd. The first option is -S , followed by the name of the server, a backslash, the name of the SQL Server instance, a comma, and the port number for the connection. Note that the default port is The second option is -Q. In our example, store is the database, dbo is the default schema, and product is the name of the table.

The third option is -s followed by a comma in quotation marks. This specifies the comma as the separator between the columns in the CSV file. The fourth option is -o to specify the path and the name of the output file.

Enclose the path and the file name in quotation marks. And the last option is -E. This indicates that it is a trusted connection to the database server.