November 16, 2010 at 6:38 am
Hello,
I am exporting out of a SQL database into a CSV file. I forgot to mention in a earlier post that this export is done with a bcp command. I would like to put double quotes around the data. In the bcp command, I have tried -t"," but this does not work. I cannot put the quotes right into the query because that does not seem to work. I was wondering what I can do. Thank you for all of your help!
November 16, 2010 at 6:53 pm
In the bcp command, I have tried -t"," but this does not work.
What is the error you are getting? I have tried to use the -t"," doing a BCP OUT and i was able to successfully export out the table data. However, I have not attempted any bcp in, because i know it's going to fail. In my case, I know that in one of the field of the table i have just exported out, the pattern "," is possible to appear and that marks a field delimiter, and can split the data into two fields, and thus won't work for me, then i just have to find a more unique delimiter. I wonder if this is possible also on your data?
November 16, 2010 at 7:38 pm
Actually the error comes when I try to import the CSV file into the MS Outlook calendar. I noticed that if you export the calendar from Outlook, all of the field names are in quotes. I just, on a hunch, thought that this may be why it got the error - because the bcp output had no quotes. I did finally get the quotes into the bcp output using Char(34).
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