{"id":9744,"date":"2025-09-05T08:05:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T08:05:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.withdata.com\/blog\/?p=9744"},"modified":"2025-09-05T09:05:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T09:05:15","slug":"export-data-from-sql-server-to-csv-via-command-line-on-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.withdata.com\/blog\/mssql-cmd\/export-data-from-sql-server-to-csv-via-command-line-on-windows.html","title":{"rendered":"Export data from SQL Server to CSV via command line on Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want to export  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/cloud-platform\/sql-server\">SQL Server<\/a>  data to  <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Comma-separated_values\">CSV<\/a>  file via Command Line Interface (CLI) on Windows?<\/p>\n<p>Using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withdata.com\/mssql-cmd\/\">mssql-cmd<\/a>, Command Line Interface (CLI) client for SQL Server, you can unload SQL Server  data to CSV\/TSV\/TXT easily and fast. Direct Interaction or Scripting and Automation.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>No need to install SQL Server client library.<\/li>\n<li>Convenient to deploy to cloud. No need to run installation file, just uncompress and run, immediately.<\/li>\n<li>Commands are entered into a terminal or command prompt, accessed from local or remote (like SSH).<\/li>\n<li>Support Windows, Linux, and MacOS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"#download-top\" onclick=\"dtv.style.display = 'block';\">Download mssql-cmd Windows version<\/a>  <a href=\"#download-top\" onclick=\"dtv.style.display = 'block';\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.withdata.com\/images\/download_3.jpg\" alt=\"Download mssql-cmd\" width=\"80\" height=\"22\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;\" \/><\/a> <span id=\"dtv\" style=\"display: none;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/down\/mssql-cmd.windows-386.zip\">mssql-cmd.windows-386.zip<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/down\/mssql-cmd.windows-amd64.zip\">mssql-cmd.windows-amd64.zip<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Export SQL Server  data to CSV\/TSV\/TXT via command line on Windows<\/h2>\n<p><b>1. Unload Table.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>1) In interactive mode:<\/p>\n<pre>\nmssql-cmd> unload\n      > table=media_messages \n      > datafile=\/data\/media_messages.csv \n      > delimiter=, \n      > quote=\" \n      > header=y;\n<\/pre>\n<p>2) In batch mode:<\/p>\n<pre>\nmssql-cmd dsn=\"pan:withdata@192.168.0.102\/test\" task=unload table=media_messages datafile=\/data\/media_messages.csv delimiter=, quote=\" header=y quit=y\n<\/pre>\n<p><b>2. Unload Query.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>1) In interactive mode:<\/p>\n<pre>\nmssql-cmd> unload\n      > query=\"select * from media_messages where id > 100\"\n      > datafile=\/data\/media_messages.csv \n      > delimiter=, \n      > quote=\" \n      > header=y;\n<\/pre>\n<p>2) In batch mode:<\/p>\n<pre>\nmssql-cmd dsn=\"pan:withdata@192.168.0.102\/test\" task=unload query=\"select * from media_messages where id > 100\" datafile=\/data\/media_messages.csv delimiter=, quote=\" header=y quit=y\n<\/pre>\n<p><b>3. Unload All Tables.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>1) In interactive mode:<\/p>\n<pre>\nmssql-cmd> unload\n      > table=all \n      > folder=\/data\/tables_data\n      > delimiter=, \n      > quote=\" \n      > header=y;\n<\/pre>\n<p>2) In batch mode:<\/p>\n<pre>\nmssql-cmd dsn=\"pan:withdata@192.168.0.102\/test\" task=unload table=all folder=\/data\/tables_data delimiter=, quote=\" header=y quit=y\n<\/pre>\n<p>See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withdata.com\/mssql-cmd\/unload.html\">parameters detail<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr style=\"clear: both;\" \/>\n<p>More about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.withdata.com\/mssql-cmd\/\">mssql-cmd &#8211; Command Line Interface (CLI) tool for SQL Server<\/a><\/p>\n<div id=\"download-bottom\" style=\"clear: both;\">\n<p>Download mssql-cmd Windows version<a href=\"#download-bottom\" onclick=\"dbv.style.display = 'block';\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.withdata.com\/images\/btn_download_green.png\" alt=\"Download mssql-cmd\" width=\"165\" height=\"50\" style=\"max-width:100%;height:auto;\" \/><\/a> <span id=\"dbv\" style=\"display: none;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/down\/mssql-cmd.windows-386.zip\">mssql-cmd.windows-386.zip<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"\/down\/mssql-cmd.windows-amd64.zip\">mssql-cmd.windows-amd64.zip<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to export SQL Server data to CSV file via Command Line Interface (CLI) on Windows? Using mssql-cmd, Command Line Interface (CLI) client for SQL Server, you can unload SQL Server data to CSV\/TSV\/TXT easily and fast. Direct Interaction or Scripting and Automation. No need to install SQL Server client library. Convenient to deploy to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2556],"tags":[73,34,16,1321,1230,2551],"class_list":["post-9744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mssql-cmd","tag-command-line","tag-csv","tag-export","tag-sql-server","tag-sql-server-export-csv","tag-windows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9744"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.withdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40059,"href":"https:\/\/www.withdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9744\/revisions\/40059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.withdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.withdata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}