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

I get an csv output file containing

acctnum,rptmonth,facilname

-------,--------,---------
ALLE04,201406,Allendale Community for Senior Living-LTC APPL02,201406,Applewood Estates ARBO02,201406,Arbors Care Center
ARIS01,201406,AristaCare at Cherry Hill
. . .

(139 rows affected)

Is there a way to get rid of the dashed line under the column headers : -------,--------, but keep the column headers?

and also a way to get rid of the two lines used for the row count on the bottom?

I tries using parm -h-1 but that got rid of the column headers as well as the dashed line.

Answer 1

Solutions:

1) To remove the row count ("(139 rows affected)") you should use SET NOCOUNT ON statement. See ref.

2) To remove column headers you should use -h parameter with value -1. See ref (section Formatting Options).

Examples:

C:\Users\sqlservr.exe>sqlcmd -S(local)\SQL2012 -d Test -E -h -1 -s, -W -Q "set nocount on; select * from dbo.Account" > d:\export.txt. 

or

C:\Users\sqlservr.exe>sqlcmd -S(local)\SQL2012 -d Test -E -h -1 -s, -W -Q "set nocount on; select * from dbo.Account" -o "d:\export2.txt"

Answer 2

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 3

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 4

In my case worked well as :

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

Answer 5

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 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

Answer 7

In addition, if you want to query out all records in a table, you can code as

1. SET NOCOUNT ON;
2. SELECT SUBSTRING((SELECT ','+ COLUMN_NAME FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS WHERE TABLE_NAME=N'%table_name%' FOR XML PATH('') ), 2, 9999);
3. SELECT * FROM %table_name%

Assign the above queries into a variable %query%. The the command will be looks like as below.

SQLCMD -h -1 -W -E -S %sql_server% -d %sql_dabase% -Q %query% -s"," -o output_file.csv