I'm trying to export data from a SQL Server database to flat files (destination as .CSV
) for migrations. The issue that I'm facing is to preserve the comma (,
) in my content text. E.g. FruitsGroup
column contains (Apple, Mango and Orange
) but the .CSV
is creating splitting the comma separated values and messing up the columns arrangements. How can get same data in single Remarks
column.
I'm expecting this data in the .csv
file (see below). There is a solution with using ""
while changing delimiter but I don't want to use that.
This is in my database and it must reflect in my .csv
file as well
ID | FruitsGroup |
---|---|
1 | Apple,Mango and Orange |
2 | Apple,Mango, Orange, Kiwi |
This is the faulty data example what I'm getting in the .csv
:
ID | FruitsGroup |
---|---|
1 | Apple |
Mango and Orange | 2 |
Apple | Mango |
Orange | Kiwi |
You have 2 solutions here:
,
)To change the delimiter, open your Flat File Connection manager, open the "Columns" pane, and then change the "Column Delimiter" to something that doesn't appear in your data. Don't reset your columns if you have already defined them properly. This will result in a dataset like the following (I used a Pipe (|
) for the delimiter):
ID|Remarks
1|Apple,Mango and Orange
2|Apple,Mango,Orange,Kiwi
To define a text qualifier, open your Flat File Connection Manager again, and then enter a character for Text qualifier on the General pane such as double quotes ("
). This will then generate a file such as the following:
"ID","Remarks"
"1","Apple,Mango and Orange"
"2","Apple,Mango,Orange,Kiwi"
If you don't want specific columns to have a text qualifier, you have to set that column's TextQualified property to False in the Advanced pane. Changing ID's TextQualified property to False results in the following:
ID,"Remarks"
1,"Apple,Mango and Orange"
2,"Apple,Mango,Orange,Kiwi"