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Export SQL Server query result to HTML file using dynamic filename with date and time
Login to SQL Server -> Enter SQL Server SQL statement -> Set HTML filename template including date -> Export SQL Server query to HTML using current date as file name
Choose SQL Server and logon.
“Export From Query” for “HTML to SQL Server“.
Select HTML file type.
1. Enter SQL Server SQL query.
2. Set HTML file options. Enter filename template, including date, #yyyy# is for current year, #mm# month, #dd# day, #hh# hour, #mi# minute, #ss# second.
3. Set rows options.
4. Export SQL Server query results to HTML file. Dynamically created HTML file name using present system time.
After exporting, you can view output HTML files.
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SQL Server → HTML reference
Type mapping
| Value kind | in SQL Server | in HTML |
|---|---|---|
| Int | int | <td>1234</td> |
| Bigint | bigint | <td>9007199254740993</td> |
| Decimal | decimal(p,s) | <td>1234.56</td> |
| Float | float | <td>1.234e+10</td> |
| Text | nvarchar(n) | <td>text</td> |
| Long text | nvarchar(max) | <td>multi-line text</td> (entities for & <) |
| Date | date | <td>2026-09-18</td> |
| Datetime | datetime2 | <td>2026-09-18 14:30:00</td> |
| Binary | varbinary(max) | not representable in a cell |
| Boolean | bit | <td>true</td> |
| JSON | nvarchar(max) | <td>{"a":1}</td> (quotes escaped) |
Dialect differences
SQL Server is a database server and HTML 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 HTML |
|---|---|---|
| port | 1433 | — |
| identifiers | [square brackets] | Attribute values in quotes; entities for reserved characters |
| row limit | SELECT TOP n | — |
| dates | datetime, datetime2, date, time | Whatever text was rendered |
| long text | nvarchar(max) | — |
| binary | varbinary(max) | data: URIs inside src attributes |
| separator | — | Tags, not delimiters |
| encoding | — | Declared in a meta charset tag or the HTTP header |
| typing | — | None |
| shape | Tables of rows and columns | Free form; tables are row/column structures inside markup |
| ceiling | — | No formal limit |
Command line
| Side | Command |
|---|---|
| SQL Server | bcp |
| SQL Server (load) | bcp, or BULK INSERT |
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