Issue using Tools- Options- Result to Text to customize column delimiter

Question

Hi all,
I need to export a large dataset (greater than 6 GB) to text file.
Since the dataset contains special characters, I cannot use Import and Export Wizard to export it into text file. (Error Message).
So I used Tools --> Options --> Result to Text. However, I cannot actually customize the delimiter.
First of all, I can only enter one character as the delimiter, and thus no character combination allowed.
Secondly, I entered # and ^ as the customized delimiter. Neither of them worked. The delimiter is always | (pipe), which does not work well for my dataset.
Does anybody have the same experience? Please help.
Thanks.

Answer 1

You don't need to do a replace, I think it will complicate the things.
Use the Import-Export Wizard to export the data.
If you have "|" in your data still you can go ahead and use the pipe character as delimiter. However in that case you should mention the text qualifier which will be used to enclose each column value.
This can be a single or many characters.
and here is how my output looked like after I exported the below table
create table TestExport(id int identity(1,1), textdata varchar(100))
insert into TestExport values('Some|deletimete~data');
I used " (double quote) as the text qualifier here
Here you will be able to distinguish between the actual delimiter and the delimiter character appearing in the data.
While exporting the data into the another data destination(I am assuming you are not going to sit and read a 6GB text file:) ), you can mention the  same text qualifier and import the data
Satheesh
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