If you want to perform some basic manipulations, then hit the “Edit Mappings” button first. Here you have buttons to quickly preview your data. Once that’s done, you’ll get to a screen where you can pick both a row and column delimiter, assuming you plumped for the delimited output type. You’ll get blank box which you can type / paste your SQL query in, exactly as you’d run it in the main SSMS environment. But if you have already written some custom SQL then pick the “Write a query to specify the data to transfer” option. The next screen gives you the chance to copy data from a set of tables of views. Don’t worry that you can’t change the delimiter itself on this screen, that comes later. Then make sure the format, column names options and so on are set as you wish. For a CSV style output pick “Flat File Destination”.īrowse to tell it the filename you want it to output. There are many options here, including copying it to another SQL server database if you have one dedicated to analysis or similar. It will then open up an Import/Export wizard.įill in the name of your SQL server and the database concerned if it isn’t already selected.Ĭhoose the destination for your data. It must be the database name right clicking the table, columns, keys or elsewhere will not give you the correct options. To stop this happening, make the first line of your SQL query:įor the maximum levels of configuration, you can use the SQL Import and Export Wizard to get data out into CSV (or a lot of other things).įor this, in the Object Explorer window, right click on the name of the database concerned.
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This creates a mostly-blank and invalid record as far as any software importing the output is concerned. Warning: SQL server is apt to add an annoying “count of records” line at the bottom of extracts performed in this way.
Of course you can open a new query tab and carry on working if you want to get stuff done whilst waiting for it to complete. Enter in the name/location of where you want your text file and it will happily churn away until it’s finished generating it. Now when you execute your query it will prompt you for a filename.
Then press the toolbar button “Results to file” (or Ctrl + Shift + F) Then, OK on that, and go back to the main SSMS screen. Find the Results -> Text part of the options and check to make sure you are happy with the delimiters, including column headers, max characters etc. The first thing to do is to go to Query -> Query Options menu. If you have no need to see the results of the query in the interactive grid, why waste your time? Instead output the results of the SQL directly to a file. Option 2: Output the query to a file instead of the grid This is fine for small result sets but I don’t especially like to make this happen if it’s going to generate millions of rows (and if it’s really small, then copy and paste to Excel or wherever is another simple option!). you need to have already got the results of the query output to the grid.This is fine with nice regular numeric data, but beware of anything with text in that might have the dreaded extra commas or equivalent within the field contents. no option here to customise the delimiter or use fixed width text file format.Quick and easy, but a couple of downsides: In the following box you get an option to save what was shown in the grid as a CSV or a tab delimited file. If you already ran your query such that the results are in the grid output at present, it’s possible to simply right click anywhere on the resulting data and choose “Save results as”. Option 1: Right clicking the data output grid They work nicely on biggish extracts too – they regularly serve me up datafiles with hundreds of millions of rows and a bunch of columns with minimal stress.
For simple CSV exports though, take your pick. There are at least 3 methods to do this. They can all produce the same results but some have more options than others. Sometimes though you might have the urge to extract a big chunk of data – most often I do this to generate a big text-file dump for import into other data analysis tools. Even when said tools can link and query the SQL server directly themselves I often find it useful to do this to ensure my extract is guaranteed to remain static, portable, fast, local and not subject to the whims of far-away database admins, especially for the larger side of extracts. SQL Server Management Studio is a commonly-used bit of the Microsoft SQL Server install, and a decent enough tool for browsing, querying and managing the data.
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