BCP Issues and Solutions

BCP Issues - A way to sort it out.

Reference:

http://sqlfool.com/2012/04/bcp-script-generator/

-- User-defined variables --
 
DECLARE @tableToBCP NVARCHAR(128)   = 'AdventureWorksDW2008R2.dbo.DimCustomer'
    , @Top          VARCHAR(10)     = NULL -- Leave NULL for all rows
    , @Delimiter    VARCHAR(4)      = '|'
    , @UseNULL      BIT             = 1
    , @OverrideChar CHAR(1)         = '~'
    , @MaxDop       CHAR(1)         = '1'
    , @Directory    VARCHAR(256)    = 'C:\bcp_output\';
 
 
-- Script-defined variables -- 
 
DECLARE @columnList TABLE (columnID INT);
 
DECLARE @bcpStatement NVARCHAR(MAX) = 'BCP "SELECT '
    , @currentID INT
    , @firstID INT;
 
INSERT INTO @columnList
SELECT column_id 
FROM sys.columns 
WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(@tableToBCP)
ORDER BY column_id;
 
IF @Top IS NOT NULL
    SET @bcpStatement = @bcpStatement + 'TOP (' + @Top + ') ';
 
SELECT @firstID = MIN(columnID) FROM @columnList;
 
WHILE EXISTS(SELECT * FROM @columnList)
BEGIN
 
    SELECT @currentID = MIN(columnID) FROM @columnList;
 
    IF @currentID <> @firstID
        SET @bcpStatement = @bcpStatement + ',';
 
    SELECT @bcpStatement = @bcpStatement + 
                            CASE 
                                WHEN user_type_id IN (231, 167, 175, 239) 
                                THEN 'CASE WHEN ' + name + ' = '''' THEN ' 
                                    + CASE 
                                        WHEN is_nullable = 1 THEN 'NULL' 
                                        ELSE '''' + REPLICATE(@OverrideChar, max_length) + ''''
                                      END
                                    + ' WHEN ' + name + ' LIKE ''%' + @Delimiter + '%'''
                                        + ' OR ' + name + ' LIKE ''%'' + CHAR(9) + ''%''' -- tab
                                        + ' OR ' + name + ' LIKE ''%'' + CHAR(10) + ''%''' -- line feed
                                        + ' OR ' + name + ' LIKE ''%'' + CHAR(13) + ''%''' -- carriage return
                                        + ' THEN ' 
                                        + CASE 
                                            WHEN is_nullable = 1 THEN 'NULL' 
                                            ELSE '''' + REPLICATE(@OverrideChar, max_length) + ''''
                                          END
                                    + ' ELSE ' + name + ' END' 
                                ELSE name 
                            END 
    FROM sys.columns 
    WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(@tableToBCP)
        AND column_id = @currentID;
 
    DELETE FROM @columnList WHERE columnID = @currentID;
 
 
END;
 
SET @bcpStatement = @bcpStatement + ' FROM ' + @tableToBCP 
    + ' WITH (NOLOCK) OPTION (MAXDOP 1);" queryOut '
    + @Directory + REPLACE(@tableToBCP, '.', '_') + '.dat -S' + @@SERVERNAME
    + ' -T -t"' + @Delimiter + '" -c -C;'
 
SELECT @bcpStatement;