Assume I have a table ABC with 3 columns (nvarchar(10), nvarchar(3), nvarchar(1)) which are all nullable. Sample data are as follows
ABCXXXXXX1, 123, F ABCXXXXXX2, NULL, S ABCXXXXXX3, 123, NULL ABCXXXXXX4, NULL, NULL
We would like to export the table into a plaintext file. All columns are packed together without delimiter
ABCXXXXXX1123F ABCXXXXXX2 S ABCXXXXXX3123 ABCXXXXXX4
We tried BCP utility to export. The result looks nice until we open the txt file with Notepad++.
For any columns with NULL value, it is found that the tools append "NUL" character which cannot be seen in Notepad but in Notepad++. For example, if the second column is NULL, it will be shown as "NUL NUL NUL". This is not what we want. If there are NULL values, we would rather use space to fill the gap.
As it looks like there is no solution for BCP (correct me if we are wrong), we would like to investigate whether it is possible to do that with SSIS. The package should be simple and can be applied to any tables.
Thank you very much for your help.