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Hi Team.
I am trying to use a BCP utility to export data to a text file.
BCp command is working. However, I want the file format in UTF-8 format.
How to achieve this ?
Thanks
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Hi,
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See bcp Utility => with parameter -c you can define the code page, 65001 = UTF-8
To add what Olaf said: you need at least SQL 2014 SP2 to use UTF-8. Note also that if you need a BOM (byte-order mark), BCP does not write this to the file, and there is no provision for it.