Export to CSV

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Export to CSV

Jenny77

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August 21, 2019 at 7:45 am

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Hi,

i am trying to export a table into csv, and it should be comma delimited with doublequotes around each value like this:
"value1","value2","value3"
this works fine, but one of the columns includes doublequotes as part of the value, so when its exported to csv, it breaks it into multiple columns. Anyone knows the best way to handle this so that its not splitting it up into multiple columns?

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003863 More actions · Answer 1

Jenny77 wrote:

Hi,
i am trying to export a table into csv, and it should be comma delimited with doublequotes around each value like this:
"value1","value2","value3"
this works fine, but one of the columns includes doublequotes as part of the value, so when its exported to csv, it breaks it into multiple columns. Anyone knows the best way to handle this so that its not splitting it up into multiple columns?
Yes. It's part of the "standard" for proper "CSV" creation (Google for it). You have to double up on embedded quotes to "escape" them properly.

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Steve Collins SSCrazy Points: 2069 More actions · Answer 2

What have you tried? As I recall SSMS export will not properly escape the text. I'm pretty sure tho SSIS csv export does.

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