BCP Tables & Column Names into CSV

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BCP Tables & Column Names into CSV

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jbrown7232
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Posted - 2010-06-28 : 13:48:17

Hello,

I need to BCP out all the tables and column names from my database [Billing] into a CSV or .xls files.

tkizer
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Posted - 2010-06-28 : 14:13:49

You can simply bcp out the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS table, or a subset of the data via a queryout.

bcp "select table_name, column_name from Billing.INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS order by table_name, ordinal_position" queryout E:\Folder1\File1.csv -t, -c -Sserver1\instance1 -T -r\r\n

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jbrown7232
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Posted - 2010-06-28 : 15:12:58

I am sorry I need the data for each table into a CSV file and each table need to contain the column headings. Thanks This is close

tkizer
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Posted - 2010-06-28 : 15:21:34

You can use SSIS to do that.

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