SELECT INTO Statements
You can use the SELECT INTO statement to export formatted data to a file.
Data Export with an SQL Query
The following query exports data into a file formatted in comma-separated values (CSV):
SELECT Id, Name INTO [csv://Customer.txt] FROM [Customer] WHERE Name = 'Jon Doe'You can specify other formats in the file URI. The possible delimiters are tab, semicolon, and comma with the default being a comma. The following example exports tab-separated values:
SELECT Id, Name INTO [csv://Customer.txt;delimiter=tab] FROM [Customer] WHERE Name = 'Jon Doe'
C#
String connectionString = "CompanyId=mycompanyId;user=myuser;password=mypassword;URL=http://{servername}:{port}/Dynamics/GPService"; using (DynamicsGPConnection connection = new DynamicsGPConnection(connectionString)) { DynamicsGPCommand cmd = new DynamicsGPCommand("SELECT Id, Name INTO [csv://Customer.txt] FROM [Customer] WHERE Name = 'Jon Doe' ", connection); int rowsAffected = cmd.ExecuteNonQuery(); }
VB.NET
Dim connectionString As [String] = "CompanyId=mycompanyId;user=myuser;password=mypassword;URL=http://{servername}:{port}/Dynamics/GPService" Using connection As New DynamicsGPConnection(connectionString) Dim cmd As New DynamicsGPCommand("SELECT Id, Name INTO [csv://Customer.txt] FROM [Customer] WHERE Name = 'Jon Doe'", connection) Dim rowsAffected As Integer = cmd.ExecuteNonQuery() End UsingYou can specify other file formats in the URI. The following example exports tab-separated values:
C#
String connectionString = "CompanyId=mycompanyId;user=myuser;password=mypassword;URL=http://{servername}:{port}/Dynamics/GPService"; using (DynamicsGPConnection connection = new DynamicsGPConnection(connectionString)) { DynamicsGPCommand cmd = new DynamicsGPCommand("SELECT * INTO [Customer] IN [csv://filename=c:/Customer.csv;delimiter=tab] FROM [Customer] WHERE Name = 'Jon Doe'", connection); int rowsAffected = cmd.ExecuteNonQuery(); }
VB.NET
Dim connectionString As [String] = "CompanyId=mycompanyId;user=myuser;password=mypassword;URL=http://{servername}:{port}/Dynamics/GPService" Using connection As New DynamicsGPConnection(connectionString) Dim cmd As New DynamicsGPCommand("SELECT * INTO [Customer] IN [csv://filename=c:/Customer.csv;delimiter=tab] FROM [Customer] WHERE Name = 'Jon Doe'", connection) Dim rowsAffected As Integer = cmd.ExecuteNonQuery() End Using