Depending on your database, the separators may also be inserted into the output by the dB engine with a tailored select query. For example, under Oracle:

select CUSTOMER||';'||STATUS||';'||ID from ... where ...
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The syntax is not really nice and I would tend prefer to reformat with Perl, but it works and can be useful at least for simple queries.

Update: Removed the delimiter after the last column.