How BCP command giving Pipe Seperated file

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SQL-Server-2008R2

Below is my code as i am getting valid file where sperator is tab but i want Pipe character as sperator.

DECLARE @FileName varchar(50), @bcpCommand varchar(2000)
SET @FileName = 'E:\dd.txt '
SET @bcpCommand = 'bcp "select top 10 * from MyTable" queryout "'
SET @bcpCommand = @bcpCommand + @FileName + ' -U sa -P Pwd -c'
print @bcpCommand
EXEC master..xp_cmdshell @bcpCommand

Posted 8-Oct-14 2:39am

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Richard Deeming · Answer 1 · 2014-10-08T02:52:00

First and second results from Google for "bcp separator":
Specify Field and Row Terminators[^]
bcp Utility[^]

You need to use the -t argument (case sensitive) to specified the field separator.

bcp Utility[^]

-t field_term

Specifies the field terminator. The default is \t (tab character). Use this parameter to override the default field terminator. For more information, see Specify Field and Row Terminators[^].

If you specify the field terminator in hexadecimal notation in a bcp.exe command, the value will be truncated at 0x00. For example, if you specify 0x410041, 0x41 will be used.

If field_term begins with a hyphen (-) or a forward slash (/), do not include a space between -t and the field_term value.