Convert SQL to CSV – Complete Guide

Turn your SQL query results or database dumps into clean, ready-to-use CSV files. Our SQL to CSV Converter supports all major SQL dialects and gives you full control over delimiters, quoting, and encoding.

How It Works

You provide a SQL SELECT query or upload a .sql file containing data (INSERT statements). Our engine executes the query (in a sandbox) and converts the result set to CSV following RFC 4180 standards.

Supported SQL Dialects

Code Example & Output

-- Input SQL (MySQL)
SELECT id, name, email FROM customers WHERE city = 'New York';

-- Generated CSV (with headers)
"id","name","email"
1,"John Doe","john@example.com"
2,"Jane Smith","jane@example.com"

-- Without headers (if option unchecked)
1,"John Doe","john@example.com"
2,"Jane Smith","jane@example.com"

Advanced Options

• Delimiter: comma (,), semicolon (;), tab ( ), pipe (|)
• Quote character: double quote (") or single quote (')
• Escape character: double quote (RFC 4180) or backslash
• NULL representation: empty string, NULL, or custom
• Encoding: UTF-8, UTF-8 with BOM, UTF-16LE, UTF-16BE, ASCII
• Line endings: Windows (CRLF) or Unix (LF)

Use Cases

• Export database reports to Excel / Google Sheets
• Migrate data between different databases
• Share query results with non-technical teams
• Create CSV backups of important tables
• Feed data into ETL pipelines or machine learning models

More detailed examples: Converting a 10,000 row MySQL table to CSV reduces file size by 40% compared to SQL dump. Our tool handles special characters, line breaks, and commas inside fields correctly.

For large exports, the tool streams data to avoid memory issues. You can also combine multiple SELECT queries into one ZIP file containing multiple CSVs.

Try it now – no registration, no watermark, completely free.