BCP Inconcistency while exporting CSV

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BCP Inconcistency while exporting CSV

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emmanueloren
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2 Posts

Posted - 2012-06-22 : 09:19:11

I have a problem using BCP. The request and the exported file doesn’t have the same number of lines.
This is the command I use :

Exec master..xp_cmdshell 'bcp "SELECT [email],[title],[firstname],[lastname],[dateofbirth],[zip],''RS'' as raison_soc   FROM […]" queryout "C:\Export\20120611003-0.csv" -c -T -CRAW '

The request executed out of BCP returns 6 695 695 lines.
BCP execution output is:

So the right number of lines is supposed to be returned.
The output file contains 6 911 814 lines, 216 119 added lines. None of them is doubled.
Versions:
SQL server 2008
Bcp version 10.0.5500.0

Does anybody got any clue because I haven't...

Thank you in advance for any input.

Emmanuel OREN

visakh16
Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder

52326 Posts

Posted - 2012-06-22 : 23:05:50

may be one of involved column has text data which includes carriage return/line breaks

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emmanueloren
Starting Member

2 Posts

Posted - 2012-06-26 : 08:50:07

Thank you for the idea, in fact there ara NULL caracters interpreted as line breaks !

Emmanuel ORE?

Bill_C
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

299 Posts

Posted - 2012-06-28 : 00:58:05

We regularly have to deal with csv files and have to 'clean' them, removing/replacing comma's from text fields, and many other characters to get them through the import.
Then when they are imported to the tables we do a reverse operation, puting them back in so the records look like their originals, it can be a bit of a pain.

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