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ramemail.n
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Posted - 2010-07-28 : 12:27:48

declare @dateformat varchar(100)
select @dateformat = convert(varchar(15), getdate(),102)
select @dateformat
declare @sql varchar(100)
set @sql = 'bcp "SELECT top 10 * FROM report..carriers" queryout "D:\bcptest' + @dateformat + '.txt" -T -c -t,'
select @sql
exec xp_cmdshell @sql

using above script i am able to copy the data from table to text file
but i am not getting header how to get the header in each file.

Thanks,
Rammohan

Rammohan N

tkizer
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38200 Posts

Posted - 2010-07-28 : 13:00:47

Moved topic out of Script Library since your topic is not appropriate for that forum.

Bcp does not give you the header information. You can get the header via a UNION view with CONVERT, however it's better to just use SSIS.

Here's the bcp header solution though: http://www.dbforums.com/microsoft-sql-server/989335-bcp-out-headers.html

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madhivanan
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Posted - 2010-07-29 : 04:44:10

Also refer point 5
http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=49926

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