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, BuildNumber INTO [csv://Builds.txt] FROM [Builds] WHERE Reason = 'Manual'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, BuildNumber INTO [csv://Builds.txt;delimiter=tab] FROM [Builds] WHERE Reason = 'Manual'
C#
String connectionString = "AuthScheme=Basic;Organization=MyAzureDevOpsOrganization;ProjectId=MyProjectId;PersonalAccessToken=MyPAT;"; using (AzureDevOpsConnection connection = new AzureDevOpsConnection(connectionString)) { AzureDevOpsCommand cmd = new AzureDevOpsCommand("SELECT Id, BuildNumber INTO [csv://Builds.txt] FROM [Builds] WHERE Reason = 'Manual' ", connection); int rowsAffected = cmd.ExecuteNonQuery(); }
VB.NET
Dim connectionString As [String] = "AuthScheme=Basic;Organization=MyAzureDevOpsOrganization;ProjectId=MyProjectId;PersonalAccessToken=MyPAT;" Using connection As New AzureDevOpsConnection(connectionString) Dim cmd As New AzureDevOpsCommand("SELECT Id, BuildNumber INTO [csv://Builds.txt] FROM [Builds] WHERE Reason = 'Manual'", 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 = "AuthScheme=Basic;Organization=MyAzureDevOpsOrganization;ProjectId=MyProjectId;PersonalAccessToken=MyPAT;"; using (AzureDevOpsConnection connection = new AzureDevOpsConnection(connectionString)) { AzureDevOpsCommand cmd = new AzureDevOpsCommand("SELECT * INTO [Builds] IN [csv://filename=c:/Builds.csv;delimiter=tab] FROM [Builds] WHERE Reason = 'Manual'", connection); int rowsAffected = cmd.ExecuteNonQuery(); }
VB.NET
Dim connectionString As [String] = "AuthScheme=Basic;Organization=MyAzureDevOpsOrganization;ProjectId=MyProjectId;PersonalAccessToken=MyPAT;" Using connection As New AzureDevOpsConnection(connectionString) Dim cmd As New AzureDevOpsCommand("SELECT * INTO [Builds] IN [csv://filename=c:/Builds.csv;delimiter=tab] FROM [Builds] WHERE Reason = 'Manual'", connection) Dim rowsAffected As Integer = cmd.ExecuteNonQuery() End Using