Select Records and Insert into Text File?

Greetings,

A novice needs some advice:

I am able to bulk insert data from a text file into a table. Is it
possible to run a query and insert the results into a text file on the
local or network hard drive?

Thanks For Reading,
Aaron

Re: Select Records and Insert into Text File?

One option is to use DTS , check this tutorial which gives you an overview
of the basic concept
http://www.sqldts.com/299.aspx
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Jack Vamvas
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> Greetings,
>
> A novice needs some advice:
>
> I am able to bulk insert data from a text file into a table. Is it
> possible to run a query and insert the results into a text file on the
> local or network hard drive?
>
> Thanks For Reading,
> Aaron
>

Re: Select Records and Insert into Text File?

(junkmail115@gmail.com) writes:
> A novice needs some advice:
>
> I am able to bulk insert data from a text file into a table. Is it
> possible to run a query and insert the results into a text file on the
> local or network hard drive?

There is no BULK EXPORT that is the inversion of BULK INSERT. You can
spawn the BCP command from xp_cmdshell, but xp_cmdshell is disabled on
SQL 2005 by default, and your DBA may not want to enable it.

Keep in mind that SQL Server is a server application, and it mainly
works with data in the database, and talk with clients over the network.
Things like reading files is mainly a duty for client programs to do.

--
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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