自动将 SQL 查询结果导出为 txt 文件到 Azure blob 存储

Question

I am trying to export the result of a query to a container in the Azure blob storage. I did much research and it seems there are services that can do this, but they are paid services; is there any way to automate this without any paid service at all? I can already push the files from my computer to the storage automatically, but if I could find a way to directly do this it will be great. Essentially I want to extract some data on daily basis to the storage and make it possible for a simple download using browsers or from withing Excel

fictitious Example:

SELECT name, salary FROM dbo.Employees
Export to https://mystorage.blob.core.windows.net/mycontainer/myresults.txt

Answer 1

If you are use on-premise SQL Server and want to run the script which save the query result to Blob Storage automatically, SSIS is the good solution. It's free and very effective.

You can ref this tutorial Azure Blob Storage Data Upload with SSIS : it teaches us run a SQL query and upload it to Blob Storage.

Then you can schedule run the SSIS package with a SQL Server agent job. Ref this document: How to Execute SSIS Packages from SQL Server Agent :

• SSIS is indeed a good choice for implementing ETL processes. The typical process is scheduled to run on a periodic basis. SQL Server Agent is a good tool for executing SSIS packages as well as scheduling jobs to run at the appropriate times.

You can combine these two documents and achieve your purpose.