Sqlcmd to generate file without dashed line under header, without row count

Question

Using the following sqlcmd script:

sqlcmd -S . -d MyDb -E -s, -W -Q \"select account,rptmonth, thename from theTable\"  
> c:\\dataExport.csv

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Answer 1

To remove the Row Count: Add the below to your SQL statement

    SET NOCOUNT ON;

To remove the hyphen row try the following upon successful execution:

    findstr /v /c:"---" c:\dataExport.csv > c:\finalExport.csv

I use "---" as all my columns are over 3 characters and I never have that string in my data but you could also use "-,-" to reduce the risk further or any delimiter based on your data in place of the ",".

Answer 2

Use the following;

sqlcmd -S . -d MyDb -E -s, -h-1 -W -Q "set nocount on;select 'account','rptmonth', 'thename';select account,rptmonth, thename from theTable"  
> c:\dataExport.csv

• remove the header -h-1
• remove row count [set nocount on;]
• add header select [select 'account','rptmonth', 'thename';]
• add your select [select account,rptmonth, thename from theTable;]

Answer 3

The guy with the top answer didn't answer how to remove the dashed line. This is my awesome solution.

1. First include -h -1 which removes both the dashed line and header
2. Then before your select statement manually inject the header string that you need with a PRINT statement. So in your case PRINT 'acctnum,rptmonth,facilname' select..*...from...

Sorry I'm 4 years and 9 months late.

Answer 4

In my case worked well as :

type Temp.txt | findstr /v -- > DestFile.txt

Answer 5

I used another solution to solve the issue of removing the dashed line below the header.

DECLARE @combinedString VARCHAR(MAX);

SELECT @combinedString = COALESCE(@combinedString + '|', '') + COLUMN_NAME
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE TABLE_NAME  = 'YOUR_TABLE_NAME'

Then just use Print @combinedString above your select statement. I used pipe delimiter.

Answer 6

1.Create the file first with the header columns

2.Apprend the sqlcmd output to the file using the option -h-1

echo acctnum,rptmonth,facilname > c:\dataExport.csv sqlcmd -S . -d MyDb -E -s, -h-1 -W -Q "select account,rptmonth, thename from theTable" >> c:\dataExport.csv