Sql results to file rpt

And see : stackoverflow. Show 4 more comments. This is the recommended way I see you can do it. Eon Eon 3, 9 9 gold badges 43 43 silver badges 74 74 bronze badges.

Otherwise I would prefer your method. Regards — Relaxed1. No sorry, after testing again: No memory error for the 'grid' option you suggest. But the output is still unicode: 1 'Output to text', then right-click, save: it only allows saving as.

And the save does not complete because a memory error occurs. However the. I know this is a little old, but I came across this issue and found this page. I used a slightly different method. If you select the entire grid, you can right click and copy with headers. Then you can just paste the entire grid into Excel. Seems like the simplest method to me. You are then asked to specify a table or query to use. Emeka Emeka 2 2 gold badges 9 9 silver badges 15 15 bronze badges.

Thanks - yes me too. It is simple coincidence that the. First get your data in. Change file extension to. File type is 'Text Unicode'. Arvind Dhasmana Arvind Dhasmana 1, 2 2 gold badges 8 8 silver badges 7 7 bronze badges.

Sign up or log in Sign up using Google. Sign up using Facebook. An option to specify the name and path will be displayed. We will call the results in a file named Results.

You can save the results in a file from here. This option is useful when you are using batch files to automate tasks. The command used the myquery. PowerShell is an extremely popular command line shell to automate tasks.

We can export the SQL Server query results to a txt file by executing the following cmdlets:. Invoke-Sqlcmd will call the script myquery. The results will be the following:. In SSMS, when you right click a database. There is an option to import or export data. In Destination, select Flat File Destination and press browse to specify the file name and path:. Specify the query of the file myquery. A message specifying that the statement is valid should be displayed:.

You could also perform a similar task using Visual Basic. This option is very useful if you are writing code and you need to integrate this task to the code. In region Namespaces add System. And lookint at it - it looks like a binary file. So, what is going on? Ok, thanks.

I'll look into it. Actually, there is a problem with that if some values contain commas - the resulting CSV is not properly escaped. The RPT file is actually quite nice as it contains fixed-width columns. This will bring up the text import wizard and Excel would do a pretty good job at guessing the columns. Go through the wizard and then save the results as CSV. Proposed as answer by xschen Monday, September 14, PM. Wednesday, August 10, PM.

Dear Pinal, First, I wish to thank you for your continuing dedication to helping and educating people around the world in matters relating to SQL. Kind regards, Hans. Shantilal Suthar. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Exclusive Newsletter Website. Go to mobile version.