Exporting list of tables to text files?

Question

Anyone have solution for exporting list of SQL tables to text files?
My goal is to have a flexible/dynamic way to export sql tables to text files that is executed via a sql job. I plan on having a configuration table that has sqltablename, fieldstoexclude (maybe fieldstoinclude - not decided), path, filename, includeheader,
delimiter. So the SSIS package will query the configuration table and that will be the loop. One text file for each configuraton.tablename row.
Does anyone have an already built solution that they can share? I have seen some with vb script and am not opposed, but would like to have a strictly SSIS package that uses SQL queries for the solution.

Answer 1

Try using this as your query (Remember to set the database you want to use first:
DECLARE @tableBuilder TABLE (dSQL VARCHAR(MAX))
DECLARE @tableString VARCHAR(100), @newTableString VARCHAR(100), @columnString VARCHAR(MAX), @dSQL VARCHAR(MAX) = ''
DECLARE tableBuilder CURSOR FOR
SELECT
'CREATE TABLE '+d.name+'.'+t.name ,
c.name + ' ' +
CASE
WHEN st.NAME IN ('float','image','text','uniqueidentifier','date','time','datetime2','datetimeoffset','tinyint','smallint','int','smalldatetime','real','money','datetime','smallmoney','bigint','bit','hierarchyid','timestamp','xml','geometry','geography','sql_variant','sysname') THEN st.name
WHEN st.name IN ('decimal','numeric') THEN st.name + '(' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,c.precision) + ',' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,c.scale) + ')'
WHEN st.name IN ('nvarchar','nchar','char','varbinary','varchar','binary','ntext') THEN st.name + '(' + CONVERT(VARCHAR,c.max_length) +')'
END + ','+ char(13)+CHAR(10)
FROM sys.tables t
LEFT OUTER JOIN sys.extended_properties ep
ON t.object_id = ep.major_ID
AND ep.name = 'microsoft_database_tools_support'
INNER JOIN sys.columns c
ON t.object_id = c.object_id
INNER JOIN sys.systypes st
ON c.system_type_id = st.xtype
INNER JOIN sys.databases d
ON DB_ID() = d.database_id
WHERE ep.name IS NULL AND is_ms_shipped = 0
ORDER BY t.name, c.column_id
OPEN tableBuilder
FETCH tableBuilder INTO @tableString, @columnString
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS <> -1
BEGIN
IF @tableString <> @newTableString
BEGIN
SET @dSQL = @newTableString + char(13)+CHAR(10) + ' (' + char(13)+CHAR(10) +LEFT(@dSQL,LEN(@dSQL)-3) + char(13)+CHAR(10) + ' )'
INSERT INTO @tableBuilder ( dSQL ) VALUES (@dSQL)
SET @dSQL = ''
END
SET @dSQL = @dSQL + ' ' + @columnString
SET @newTableString = @tableString
FETCH tableBuilder INTO @tableString, @columnString
END
CLOSE tableBuilder
DEALLOCATE tableBuilder
SELECT * FROM @tableBuilder
Export the results of that as you like.