Exporting data from SQL Server Database

Let us imagine a situation when some company needs to quickly export information from the internal SQL Server database to a file format that would be suitable for the most company’s customers, for example MS Excel workbook, CSV or XML document. Such situation is typical in the daily work of SQL Server administrators, database software developers and users. This task can be solved in different ways, for example using the built-in SQL Server data transformation/integration services, BCP utility, or by exporting data via ODBC connections, by executing specially crafted SQL queries. Furthermore, software market offers a number of database tools for SQL Server data export. The above-mentioned solutions, however, often have certain drawbacks, e.g. the lack of Unicode or desired target file format support, or the recurring conversion of data is needed which can lead to irreversible distortion of exported information. Also, using complex and heavy SQL Server services and designing transformation packages for such an easy task is often absolutely unnecessary.

SQL Server Export Tool

EMS Data Export for SQL Server is the must-have utility in DBA’s and ordinary users’ tools arsenal to export data from SQL Server database quickly and easily. It has friendly and clear to use wizard interface with multilingual support and provides a rich set of useful features, such as exporting data from several SQL Server database tables, views or queries at the same time with particular settings for each export operation; ability to change parameters for each data source and target file, to tune specific settings for each output format, to work with different versions of Microsoft SQL Server and much more. EMS Data Export for SQL Server allows you efficiently export data from SQL Server databases to a great number of available file formats, including MS Access, MS Excel, MS Word (RTF), HTML, XML, PDF, TXT, CSV, DBF, ODF and others.

EMS Data Export for SQL Server divides a complex process of SQL Server data export into a sequence of simple steps and allows you visually select fields for export and change their order, define output file types and formats for the exported fields, add SQL queries whose results should be exported, customize the header and footer areas of the result file, select the text alignment and width for a certain column, set other various export options. The program allows you to tune the parameters in accordance with each output file type, for example, define data format and chart options for Excel files; set an optional password and a table name for Access files; set XML type and encoding for XML documents and so on.

EMS Data Export for SQL Server allows you to store its configuration settings in external files if you need to perform the data export process repeatedly. Such configuration settings can be used to automate the process of exporting data from SQL Server database with a special console utility. This utility can simplify and automate typical export tasks by performing the export on the schedule according to the predefined settings.

Other SQL Server Tools

Data Export for SQL Server can be used as a single tool or in combination with a number of powerful database programs for Microsoft SQL Server - EMS SQL Management Studio for SQL Server. This is a set of data management tools that help to reduce the total cost of ownership by maximizing database administrator and database application developer efficiency. This workbench environment allows you design, explore and maintain existing SQL Server databases with support of all database objects, transfer data between most popular databases, generate test data for database testing purposes, compare and synchronize the structure and contents of your SQL Server databases, create database backups in a form of SQL scripts, execute you service tasks according to the schedule and get notifications about execution results and much, much more.