How to export data as CSV format from SQL Server using sqlcmd?

Question

I can quite easily dump data into a text file such as:

sqlcmd -S myServer -d myDB -E -Q "select col1, col2, col3 from SomeTable" 
     -o "MyData.txt"

However, I have looked at the help files for SQLCMD but have not seen an option specifically for CSV.

Is there a way to dump data from a table into a CSV text file using SQLCMD?

Answer 1

You can run something like this:

sqlcmd -S MyServer -d myDB -E -Q "select col1, col2, col3 from SomeTable" 
       -o "MyData.csv" -h-1 -s"," -w 700

• -h-1 removes column name headers from the result
  
• -s"," sets the column seperator to ,
  
• -w 700 sets the row width to 700 chars (this will need to be as wide as the longest row or it will wrap to the next line)