Export CSV file to FTP site using SQL - sql-server

Question

Does anyone know how to export CSV file to FTP site in SQL management studio?
I am currently using
exec xp_cmdshell 'net use \ftp://213.32.32 \user:fjdowj ddfdf'
But it doesn't work at all
Thanks

Answer 1

you can try CLR stored procedure to generate CSV file and export to FTP site.
Generating CSV file to a path is given below:
public static void GenerateCSVFile(SqlString queryToGetData, SqlString folderPath)
{
string sqlCommand;
string filePath;
try
{
sqlCommand = queryToGetData.ToString();
filePath = folderPath.ToString() + "\\GeneratedFile" + ".csv";
using (SqlConnection connection = new SqlConnection(
"context connection=true"))
{
connection.Open();
SqlCommand command = new SqlCommand(sqlCommand,connection);
using (SqlDataReader reader = command.ExecuteReader())
{
DataTable table = new DataTable();
table.Load(reader);
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
List<string> columnNames = new List<string>();
List<string> rows = new List<string>();
foreach (DataColumn column in table.Columns)
{
columnNames.Add(column.ColumnName);
}
builder.Append(string.Join(",", columnNames.ToArray())).Append("\n");
foreach (DataRow row in table.Rows)
{
List<string> currentRow = new List<string>();
foreach (DataColumn column in table.Columns)
{
object item = row[column];
currentRow.Add(item.ToString());
}
rows.Add(string.Join(",", currentRow.ToArray()));
}
builder.Append(string.Join("\n", rows.ToArray()));
using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(filePath))
{
writer.Write(builder.ToString());
}
}
}
}
catch(Exception ex)
{
throw;
}
}
Once you generate file, you can use the below approach to load to FTP path.
FTP Directly in SQL

Answer 2

xp_cmdshell is disabled by default (for very good reasons) on all recent versions of SQL Server. You could re-enable it manually (and I encourage you NOT to), but then you'd need an ftp command line tool to do the upload-- I don't think that net use command is going to do the trick. If you did manage to map an ftp end point as a drive with net use as the SQL Server service user, you would still need to achieve copying the file from SSMS to the filesystem on the server before running the FTP job.