Showing posts with label SQL. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SQL. Show all posts

Thursday, January 28, 2010

SQL Function to quote for CSV

MSSQL doesn't provide any way to text-qualify fields with quotes for CSV output. The SSIS filters will do this for you, but if you're using BCP or something even more primitive :) it can be a pain.

Use this function to throw double-quotes around text fields if they contain a comma:


ALTER function fn_QuoteCSV
(
@input varchar(4000)
)
RETURNS varchar(4000)
AS
BEGIN
declare @rtn varchar(4000)
select @rtn=@input

IF CHARINDEX(',',@input) > 0
BEGIN
select @rtn = QUOTENAME(@input,CHAR(34))
END

return @rtn

END