Export SQL to proper CSV file

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  15 years ago

  by Muller2

  Allan Muller

  Oxford, UK, United Kingdom

  Joined 15 years ago

  Hi,
  

  
  I am having real problems creating an application that exports data from an SQL database to a proper CSV file. If there is no value present in the column then I am after a comma to be inserted before moving onto the next field.
  

  
  If anyone has or can write me a bit of code to loop through a table a create a true .csv file in C# that would be fantastic!
  

  
  Thanks,
  

  
  Al

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  15 years ago

  by jmcilhinney

  John McIlhinney

  Sydney, Australia

  Joined 15 years ago

  You can use ADO.NET to read and write CSV files just like they were tables in a database.  Check out www.connectionstrings.com for the appropriate connection string.  The only other difference is that you use the file names in place of table names in your SQL statements.  I'm not sure whether it will create the files from scratch.  If not, you would just have to manually create the file with a header row and let ADO.NET take care of the rest.

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