Hi,
I am using BCP to export SQL table to CSV and it works great. but it doesn't include the header - Column name. I need to include it ;-(
Below is my T-SQL.
Thanks!
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ie,
create view myView
as
select t.c1,t.c2,t.c3
from
(select 1 i, 'col1name' c1, col2name' c2, 'col3name' c3...
union
select 2 i,cast(col1 as varchar) c1, cast(col2 as varchar) c2, cast(col3 as varchar) c3... from yourtable) t
order by t.i asc
then your bcp code:
Declare @sql varchar(8000)
select @sql = 'bcp "select * from myView" queryout C:\ -c -t, -T -S' + @@servername
exec master..xp_cmdshell @sql
The quick answer is no. You can't do this with BCP. You can try and use DTS or the export table wizard (then schedule it/script it). This would be the easiest way to do it. You can try and do various techniques, creating a view to have your first row have the column names, use a copy and manually create your column list like on this link:http://groups.google.
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cheers
frank
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by: frankyteePosted on 2008-06-19 at 18:33:06ID: 21827825
create a view which contains the field names (using union) and bcp the view, check out
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