SQL to CSV tool for MSSQL

When SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) is not enough

This is a simple program that fulfils specific requirements

• You need a CSV created from a SQL query

Very simple to use. Just start it up and enter in the connection string, query and the output file name for the CSV.

Tech / 3rd Party Stuff

• CSV Helper - An awesome CSV handling library

Why I built this / Issues with exporting from SMSS

The issue is the delimitation. If a data cell contains a comma and line break, then the export tool kind of ignores it by default.

There is a setting inside of SSMS that supposedly fixes this, but it still has issues. The line breaks can still leave broken unusable CSV records.

Todo's

• Command line version
• Support MySQL and other abitrary SQL solutions
• Save state / Remember settings

Versions

• v1 - Initial release with basic functionality of querying against a database, which is saved to a file. Simples.