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                                         errrick 
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                                            | Hi,Is there a way I can setup a scheduled task that will run a specific SQL query (basically a SELECT statement) and automatically export the results to a file (that could be a CSV or whatever human readable/parser friendly format)Note: SQL Server 6.5 is not reachable via remote access. All must be done in an NT4 system by connecting locally.Thanks!Eric | 
                                             
                                         
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                                     tkizer 
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                                     Transact Charlie 
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                                          | you could also just schedule a regular NT4 job with the AT command running the batch file but the method Tara illustrates is probably easier to keep track of as it's more logically tied to sqlserver.Charlie===============================================================Msg 3903, Level 16, State 1, Line 1736The ROLLBACK TRANSACTION request has no corresponding BEGIN TRANSACTION  | 
                                         
                                        
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                                     errrick 
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                                          | Thanks Tara / Charlie, will try that. I thought that bcp.exe didn't even exist in 6.5 :p  | 
                                         
                                        
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                                     errrick 
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                                          | I just found that BCP in SQL 6.5 does not allow to run custom queries, it can only export tables (it doesn't even let me select which columns I want!)Is there any other approach?  | 
                                         
                                        
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                                     tkizer 
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                                     errrick 
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                                          | Tara, bcp.exe in SQL 6.5 does not have the queryout option. However I figured out the View solution already.. it seems to do what I want, thanks!  | 
                                         
                                        
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