Want to batch export data from SQL Server tables to Txt files?
Using SqlToTxt, you can batch export data from SQL Server tables to Txt files easily and fast, just a few mouse clicks!
Here you can download and install SqlToTxt.
Batch export data from SQL Server tables to Txt files
Click “Export All Tables” at task dialog.
then show the Export Tables form.
1. Select Txt file type.
2. See Tables.
3. Enter data folder.
4. Select Tables.
5. Summary.
6. Export.
More about SqlToTxt – the tool to batch export data from SQL Server tables to Txt files
SQL Server → TXT reference
Type mapping
| Value kind | in SQL Server | in TXT |
|---|---|---|
| Int | int | 1234, or right-aligned in a fixed-width column |
| Bigint | bigint | 9007199254740993 |
| Decimal | decimal(p,s) | 1234.56 |
| Float | float | 1.234e+10 |
| Text | nvarchar(n) | written as-is; padding depends on the chosen layout |
| Long text | nvarchar(max) | written as-is |
| Date | date | whatever the writer chose |
| Datetime | datetime2 | whatever the writer chose |
| Binary | varbinary(max) | not representable |
| Boolean | bit | Y / N, or 1 / 0, or TRUE / FALSE |
Dialect differences
SQL Server is a database server and TXT is a file format, so the gap is wider than a dialect difference - the rows below are where values and structure stop lining up.
| Property | in SQL Server | in TXT |
|---|---|---|
| port | 1433 | — |
| identifiers | [square brackets] | None by convention |
| row limit | SELECT TOP n | — |
| dates | datetime, datetime2, date, time | Whatever the writer produced; no convention is guaranteed |
| long text | nvarchar(max) | — |
| binary | varbinary(max) | Not supported |
| separator | — | Whatever was chosen - often fixed column widths |
| encoding | — | No declaration - UTF-8 works only with a BOM |
| typing | — | None - every field is text |
| shape | Tables of rows and columns | Free form; a parser has to be told the layout |
| ceiling | — | No formal limit |
Command line
| Side | Command |
|---|---|
| SQL Server | bcp |
| SQL Server (load) | bcp, or BULK INSERT |
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