Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Export data with Column Heading in Query Analyzer

When I run a query and export it to an Excel spreadsheet,
is it possible to include the "Column Heading" ?
Thanks
I've often wondered this myself but your question provoked me into finding an answer, so here it is.
Go to Tools/Options and then the Results tab. Change results to go to Text rather than grid.. change output format to Tab Delimited.
After you do a select all on your results and paste it into Excel, it should convert this rather nicely into columns.
I don't know whether this kind of special paste functionality is limited to any version of Excel so, if this doesn't work, choose to send Results To File.. save the file and import into Excel. Not as quick as the paste but the result is the same.
Hope this helps you out some
Seymour

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