ERROR : Host-file columns may be skipped only when copying into the Server

Hi All,

I need to make a query from the SQL Server 2K and save this data as an XML file. What i am trying to do is to execute a bcp utility as follows:

EXEC master..xp_cmdshell 'bcp "SELECT CustID,CustName,CustSurname,CustEmail FROM myOwenDB..T_Customers FOR XML RAW" queryout "c:\customers.xml" -fc:\bcp.fmt -Sservername -Usa -Ppwd -C RAW -r -t'

with bcp.fmt file formatted as

8.0
4
1 SQLCHAR 0 9 "\t" 1 CustID Turkish_CI_AS
2 SQLCHAR 0 100 "\t" 2 CustName Turkish_CI_AS
3 SQLCHAR 0 100 "\t" 3 CustSurname Turkish_CI_AS
4 SQLCHAR 0 100 "\t" 4 CustEmail Turkish_CI_AS

The error is as follows:

Error = [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Host-file columns may be skipped only when copying into the Server

Does anyone have an idea about the problem? Also other techniques to generate XML file are also welcomed:)

Thanks in advance,

Bahtiyar KARANLIKYour select statment only returns one column and you are using a format file that says bcp will be receiving four columns from the select statment.|||Hi,
How can my SQL statement can return only one column? When i execute the statement via Query Analyzer it displays the correct information?

Am i missing a point??

Bahtiyar KARANLIK|||If you execute
SELECT CustID,CustName,CustSurname,CustEmail FROM myOwenDB..T_Customers
In QA you will get four columns, CustID, CustName,CustSurname and CustEmail.

If you execute
SELECT CustID,CustName,CustSurname,CustEmail FROM myOwenDB..T_Customers FOR XML RAW
In QA you will have a resultset with one column. Within the one column you will have an XML string that contains the four above mentioned columns, but they will be contained in one column!

If you execute
select au_id,au_lname,phone,contract from pubs.dbo.authors

you should get something like:

au_id au_lname phone contract
---- ------------ ---- ---
172-32-1176 White 408 496-7223 1

If you execute
select au_id,au_lname,phone,contract from pubsdbo.authors for xml raw

you should get something like:

XML_F52E2B61-18A1-11d1-B105-00805F49916B
------------------------
<row au_id="172-32-1176" au_lname="White" phone="408 496-7223" contract="1"/>

The first has four colums in the result set the second has only one.