SQL Server Management Studio 11 Getting data from results

Question

I ran a query but now I want to get the data from the query into a spreadsheet but when I select the option 'copy with headers' and I attempt to paste it into a spreadsheet the data gets all messed up; I think it's an issue with the delimiters?

So when I try to save the file as a csv for some reason open office always opens it with open-calc and when I try to upload it onto google docs it fails.

How can I get around this?

Answer 1

Click on File -> Save Results As. Pick a location, name and extension of your choice. The output will be ASCII text. Use a text editor to change delimiters to suit your spreadsheet.

I only have MS Excel available. If I open it and then click File -> Open and select the SMSS output file, it will start an import wizard allowing me to specify delimiter etc. Perhaps your spreadsheet tool can do something similar.