Aug 31, 2009 · I have seen a number of hacks to try to get the bcp utility to export column names along with the data. If all I am doing is dumping a table to a text file what is the most straightforward method t...

If you are running BCP through xp_cmdshell, run the following--> xp_cmdshell 'whoami'; GO --Make sure whatever user value you get back has full access to the file in question

bcp LoadDB.dbo.test in C:\temp\test.txt -S 123.66.108.207 -U testuser -P testpass -c -r /r My data was an extract from a Unix-based Oracle DB which was tab delimited and had an LF end of line character.

Feb 17, 2016 · I solved my problem by changing the blob column data type from VARBINARY (MAX) to IMAGE on the target Sql server. If this Image data type change works for you then just keep in mind that the max size is 2 GB.

May 13, 2012 · Input SQL file? No. You can specify a data file and a format file. If you want to use SQL, perhaps bulk insert is a better choice.

May 28, 2024 · I just started learning to use SQL Server's BCP and I'm using it to query a SQL Server DB and create a .csv file. I can create the file with no problem using this command: bcp "SELECT 'ID' FR...

Mar 9, 2023 · Microsoft are updating v15 as initially shipped with 2019 (SQL v15) Initially, not all 2022 features were available, but all the old ones seem to work. Microsoft released an update including 2022 features for SQLCMD and BCP as an update to the command line tools for SQL Command line Tools v15 (ie, the release associated with SQL2019) on April 23rd 2023. The …

Below is an example of the BCP Statement. I'm not accustomed to using BCP so your help and candor is greatly appreciated I am using it with a format file as well. If I execute from CMD prompt it ...

Oct 4, 2019 · I'm trying to export data from SQL Server using BCP utility on cmd into a .txt file. My requirement is that the exported .txt file needs to be in UTF-8 encoding, but whatever I do it always comes...

Jan 15, 2016 · There's a great solution by Conor, in "SQL Server BCP export corrupted file" that tells how to create a format file and reference it in your BCP query. First I created the format file from the command line: