bcp export for unicode data

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I am using bcp command in sql server to export data generated from a query to .csv file with the help of following command

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xp_cmdshell bcp "select * from table1" QUERYOUT /c /t, -T -S

It is working fine and exporting data as expected but now we have a column which contain multilingual data and during exporting with above command data in csv file shows as "????????".

After doing some googling I found some other switch like -w instead of /c to be used for unicode character but this option is creating unicode file and does not open in excel properly(columns are not separated by comma(,)). I also noticed that if I remove /t, then its separating the column and looks fine but here column is separated by tabs not comma which I don't need.

Can anybody help me if I am missing anything?

Posted 24-Sep-13 20:46pm

Rohit16db

Updated 25-Sep-13 4:11am

coded007

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RedDk 25-Sep-13 14:06pm

Possibly the -C option needs to be set. Specific codepage can be input, if its not ACP, OEM, or RAW. Isn't there a way to say it in TSQL also, using same keywords, somewhere in the " " string?

See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms162802.aspx

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Maciej Los · Answer 1 · 2013-09-25T11:41:00

Please, read the comment of RedDK and follow the link provided by Him:

RedDK wrote:
Possibly the -C option needs to be set. Specific codepage can be input, if its not ACP, OEM, or RAW. Isn't there a way to say it in TSQL also, using same keywords, somewhere in the " " string?
See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms162802.aspx[^]

and have a look here[^].

Instead:

SQL

xp_cmdshell bcp "select * from table1" QUERYOUT /c /t, -T -S

try to use:

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xp_cmdshell bcp "select * from table1" QUERYOUT -w -t, -T -S

Do not forget to define codepage!