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Creating a named pipe on Windows

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Mar 15, 20267103 views
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Problem

I want to write a large dataset from a SQL Server 2005 database using BCP (bulk copy program). Ideally I'd like to do the following: However BCP just writes this to a literal file named STDOUT. I also tried: but this returns and error of . So, can I create a named pipe anywhere? I've seen hints on …

Error Output

bcp MyDatabase..MyTable OUT STDOUT -c -t, |gzip -c c:\temp\dataset.csv.gz

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Fix for: Creating a named pipe on Windows

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On Unix you can use mkfifo for this sort of thing, but as far as I know, there's no Windows command-line tool to create or manipulate named pipes. They're not accessible to command-line tools in the way that conventional and UNC paths are. You can c…

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