Automating BCP with PowerShell

I was talking with a good friend that has an environment with terabytes of information and to create a homolog or dev environment to him is a pain. He comes to me with a solution : A PowerShell script that gets only the first 1000 lines of each table, creates the inserts and schema files

Getting BCP for Linux

Dynamic sql for convert SQL statement to txt/csv file

Github link: https://github.com/ktaranov/sqlserver-kit/blob/master/Stored_Procedure/usp_bcpUnloadSelect.sql
Quick export to flat file.
Before use please enable xp_cmdshell.

Skipping Columns (& other tricks) Using BCP Format Files (SQL Spackle)

BULK INSERT and BCP are powerful, high performance tools for importing text files. SQL Server MVP Jeff Moden gives us several nifty tips in this introduction to BULK INSERT and BCP Format Files including "Skipping Columns" and the sequestration of bad rows while still loading all the good data.