I wrote a batch script with SQL statements in order to export data to a .csv file:
sqlcmd -S DBServer -U User -P Password -d DBName -s","
-Q "SET NOCOUNT on;SELECT <=0.1%, (0.1%,0.5%] FROM t" -o D:\output.csv ;
But the specific characters in column name <=0.1%、(0.1%,0.5%] make the batch file is not working.
What should be the correct approach for this select statement?
Any help will be much appreciated.
Below is the code I am using in the batch script to BCP process.
call bcp.exe DBName.tablename out FILENAME.csv -e FILENAMEerr.txt -c -t"|" -U USER DETAILS -P PASSWORD -S Servicename -r"\n"
I try to run this on a SQL job:
sqlcmd -S . -d CI_Reports -E -s"," -W -Q "SET NOCOUNT ON SELECT * FROM [dbo].[Table]" > D:\Test.csv
How can I fix this error?
Sqlcmd: '> D:\Test.csv': Unexpected argument.
Have you tried like this -
sqlcmd -S . -d CI_Reports -E -s"," -W -Q "SET NOCOUNT ON SELECT * FROM [dbo].[Table]" -o D:\Test.csv
where -o output_file which would identify the file that receives output from sqlcmd.
Additionally you could try BCP which is best suited for bulk coping data between an instance of Microsoft SQL Server and a data file in a user-specified format.
Read more here.
I have a bash script to call a select in postgres. I would like to be able to pass a variable from the command line into the sql file.
sh myscript.sh 1234
#!/bin/bash
dbase_connect="psql -h server -U username dbase"
file="/tmp/$fname.csv"
sql="/home/user/sql_files/query.sql"
sudo bash -c "$dbase_connect -c -q -A -F , -f $sql -o $file"
The query can be as simple as:
select name from table where id = $1;
But I don't know how to call the $1 into the sql file. The actual query is much larger and I prefer to keep it out of the bash query itself because it is easier to maintain when called as a seperate .sql file.
you can use sed to insert parameter :
#!/bin/bash
dbase_connect="psql -h server -U username dbase"
file="/tmp/$fname.csv"
sql="/home/user/sql_files/query.sql"
tmp="home/user/sql_files/query.sql.tmp"
s="s/\$1/$1/g"
cat $sql | sed $s > $tmp
sudo bash -c "$dbase_connect -c -q -A -F , -f $tmp -o $file"
rm -f $tmp
How can I specify an input sql file with a long query when using bcp? I tried using the -i option but it keeps complaining about a command-line error with no extra information. Is this possible?
I had this problem today and found a convenient workaround, at least in an ad-hoc situation.
Temporary tables can be created by any user with connect permissions. This means you can also create GLOBAL temporary tables.
Just run your query in enterprise manager (or sql cmd or whatever) using SELECT ...INTO with a global temporary table e.g.
SELECT *
INTO ##mytemptable
FROM SomeTable
WHERE [massive where clause, for example]
You can then use the temporary table in the BCP query with a simple
SELECT * FROM ##mytemptable
Then drop the temp table through enterprise manager
DROP TABLE ##mytemptable
I did other way for fix that.
I create a batch file which read a file and send your content in bcp command. See:
#ECHO off
SETLOCAL EnableDelayedExpansion
SET queryFile=%1
SET outFileName=%2
FOR /F "delims=" %%i IN (%queryFile%) DO SET join=!join! %%i
ECHO %join%
bcp "%join%" queryout %outFileName% /S.\SQLE_CAESAR /d /c /t"|" /T
That script receive two parameters:
Filename which has a query;
Filename for export data;
Execute a script in cmd like that:
export-query.bat query.sql export.txt
I hope helped.
As far as I'm concerned the BCP utility only supports Transact-SQL queries directly written to the command line. Ex:
bcp "SELECT Name FROM AdventureWorks.Sales.Currency" queryout Currency.Name.dat -T -c
According to its reference the "-i" option:
Specifies the name of a response file, containing the responses to the command prompt questions for each data field when a bulk copy is being performed using interactive mode (-n, -c, -w, or -N not specified).
Notice that it differs from the sqlcmd Utility "-i" option:
Identifies the file that contains a batch of SQL statements or stored procedures. Multiple files may be specified that will be read and processed in order (...)
try :
query=$( cat < /file.sql )
export query
bcp "${query}" queryout /home/file.csv
Multi-line queries can be given to bcp easily using powershell:
PS> $query = #'
select *
from <table>
'#
PS> bcp $query queryout <outfile> -d <database> -T -S <server> -c
I had face same issue, may not be a very good approach. However, I did something like the following
bcp "declare #query nvarchar(max) set #query = (SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET(BULK 'F:\tasks\report_v2.sql', SINGLE_CLOB) AS Contents) exec sp_executesql #query" queryout %outFileName% /c /C RAW -S . -U sa -P 123 -d blog /T
And I must say, if you use like global temp table then global temp table is dropped itself of after query executed. you can't use this at some situations
What really worked for me is this:
#ECHO off
setlocal enableextensions enabledelayedexpansion
SET "queryFile=%1"
SET "outFileName=%2"
SET RESULT=
FOR /F "delims=" %%i IN ('type %queryFile%') DO SET RESULT=!RESULT! %%i
echo %RESULT%
rem bcp "%RESULT%" queryout %outFileName% -t^ -r \n -T -k -c -d DB_NAME -S SERVER_NAME
type file is the equivalent of cat file in unix
What I did with complex queries was create a stored procedure with the desired statement and call it from BCP:
bcp "exec db.schema.stored_procedure" queryout "c:\file.txt" -T -S localhost -t "|" -c
This worked great for me. Greetings!
I made my own script (called of bulk.sh) to do this (not optimal and not best practice... The script is too ugly, but very functional).
#!/bin/bash
input="SQL_FILE.sql"
count=0
const=1000
lines=()
mkdir -p bulk
while IFS= read -r line
do
lines+=("$line")
count=$((count+1))
check=$((count % const))
if [[ $check -eq 0 ]]; then
bulk="${lines[*]}"
unset lines
number=$(printf "%010d" $count)
echo $bulk > "bulk/bulk${number}.sql"
bulk=""
fi
done < "$input"
FILES="bulk/*"
for f in $FILES
do
echo "Processing $f file..."
sqlcmd -S SERVER -d DATABASE -U USER -P "PASSWORD" -i "$f"
sleep 2s
done
You can try it, with:
$ docker run -v /path/to/your/sql/file/folder:/backup -it mcr.microsoft.com/mssql-tools
$ bash bulk.sh