My problem was that I needed to create a cvs file with an older version of a SQL Server database.
My plan was to use the BCP utility to create the file, and run it though our enterprise scheduling system. By default, BCP outputs a line for every one thousand rows. This could be bad for the the enterprise scheduler console output if the file will contain millions of rows.
I quick search of the internet only recommends using xp_cmdshell to resolve my issue. However I am not going to enable xp_cmdshell for security reasons.
Resolution:
Because BCP is going to run in a command prompt window, I would be able to redirect the STDOUT to NUL.
1>NUL
Example:
bcp "select * from [DW2008].[DBO].[Sales]" queryout "C:\Reports\sales.csv" -T -t"," -c 1>NUL
This will send any of the BCP output to NUL, however if their is an error with command line syntax, it would be displayed.
Limitation: Any SQL Server errors are considered normal output, and will be suppressed. If there is a concern for SQL errors, it would be better to redirect the output to a file.
THANKS! I was having exactly the same issue due to work with our enterprise scheduler.
Glad to help, thanks for reading!