Question

I found a bat script on the internet which exports a query from SQL with a header row and into a tab delimited csv file. The script works great, however, I need the file format to be a comma separated file rather than tabular.

I have had a bit of a play around with the BCP parts of the script, but it doesn't work. Does anyone have any ideas?

@ECHO OFF
REM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
REM Generic script for exporting data to file from SQL Server using a SQL query.
REM The resulting file will be tab separated with newline as the row delimiter.
REM A log file is generated and kept in case of an error or when in debug mode.
REM See command syntax for details.
REM
REM History:
REM 20120327    Lars Rönnbäck   CREATED
REM -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
:constants
SET myCodePage=ACP
:variables
SET theQuery=SELECT  [D-U-N-S Number], [Company Name], [Street Address Line 1], [Street         Address Line 2], [Street Address Line 3], [Street Address Line 4], Town, [County (Actual)], [Full Postcode], [Telephone Number] FROM B2B_Jan13.dbo.DATA_HQ_1_Site_Level
SET theFile=C:\B2B_Matching_Automation\Temp_Files\Sites.csv
SET theServer=localhost
SET theDebug=%~4
SET /a aRandomNumber=%random%%%1000
FOR /F "usebackq tokens=1-7* delims=.:/,- " %%a IN (`ECHO %DATE%_%TIME%`) DO (SET myStartTime=%%a%%b%%c%%d%%e%%f%%g)
SET myColumnQuery="select top 0 * into [#columns_%myStartTime%_%aRandomNumber%] from (%theQuery%) q; select stuff((select char(9) + c.name from tempdb.sys.columns c where c.object_id = t.object_id order by c.column_id for XML path(''), type).value('.', 'varchar(max)'), 1,1,'') AS Header from tempdb.sys.tables t where t.name like '#columns_%myStartTime%_%aRandomNumber%%%'"
SET myHeaderFile=%theFile%.%aRandomNumber%.header
SET myDataFile=%theFile%.%aRandomNumber%.data
SET myLogFile=%theFile%.%myStartTime%_%aRandomNumber%.log
:checks
IF "%theQuery%"=="" (
GOTO syntax
) 
IF "%theFile%"=="" (
GOTO syntax
) 
IF "%theServer%"=="" ( 
SET theServer=%COMPUTERNAME%
)
:information
ECHO Start Time:    %myStartTime%       >> "%myLogFile%" 2>&1
ECHO Random Number: %aRandomNumber%     >> "%myLogFile%" 2>&1
ECHO File:          %theFile%           >> "%myLogFile%" 2>&1
ECHO Server Name:   %theServer%         >> "%myLogFile%" 2>&1
ECHO Query:                             >> "%myLogFile%" 2>&1
ECHO.                                   >> "%myLogFile%" 2>&1
ECHO %theQuery%                         >> "%myLogFile%" 2>&1
:export
BCP %myColumnQuery% queryout "%myHeaderFile%" -T -S "%theServer%" -a 65535 -c -C %myCodePage% -q >> "%myLogFile%" 2>&1
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO error
BCP "%theQuery%" queryout "%myDataFile%" -T -S "%theServer%" -a 65535 -c -C %myCodePage% -q >> "%myLogFile%" 2>&1
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO error
ECHO.                   >> "%myLogFile%" 2>&1
ECHO Merging files...   >> "%myLogFile%" 2>&1
ECHO.                   >> "%myLogFile%" 2>&1
COPY /A "%myHeaderFile%" + "%myDataFile%" "%theFile%" /B /Y >> "%myLogFile%" 2>&1
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO error
:cleanup
DEL "%myHeaderFile%" >NUL 2>&1
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO error
DEL "%myDataFile%" >NUL 2>&1
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO error
IF /I NOT [%theDebug%]==[Y] (
DEL "%myLogFile%"
)
IF ERRORLEVEL 1 GOTO error
GOTO end
:error
ECHO 
ECHO ERROR: An export error has occured!
IF NOT [%myLogFile: =%]==[] (
  ECHO Details can be found in:
  ECHO %myLogFile%
)
ECHO 
EXIT /B 1
:syntax
    ECHO.
ECHO SYNTAX: %0 "sql query" "output file" [server] [Y]
ECHO -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
ECHO You must specify an SQL query and an output file name in which the results of  
ECHO the query will be stored. Specifying a server is optional and defaults to the  
ECHO server you are executing on. If a fourth argument is given as Y a log file of
ECHO the command outputs will be saved in the same folder as the output file.
ECHO -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
:end
REM This is the end.
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Solution

Take a look at the -t Option of the BCP Command.

-t field_term

Specifies the field terminator. The default is \t (tab character). Use this
 parameter to override the default field terminator. For more
 information, see Specify Field and Row Terminators (SQL Server).

If you specify the field terminator in hexadecimal notation in a bcp.exe command, 
 the value will be truncated at 0x00. For example, if
 you specify 0x410041, 0x41 will be used.

If field_term begins with a hyphen (-) or a forward slash (/), do not include a
  space between -t and the field_term value.

Found Here

I've not used this myself but maybe that will point you in the right direction.

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