I want to create my ENTIRE table as a script - columns, constraints, rows etc. as a script in SQL server management studio. How do I do this ?
Right click on the database in your Object Explorer. Go to Tasks > Generate Scripts.
Choose "Select specified objects" and expand tables and select the table you want. On the "Set Script Options" page, click advanced and make sure you have all your table related stuff set to true. There is also a field in Advanced called "Types of data to script" - set that to "Schema and Data" to include INSERT statements.
Note: I'm referencing Management Studio 2012 for SQL Standard. I assume it's the same for 2008, but I could be wrong...
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Is there any way to create a copy of one database with data but not using a backup file?
I tried DBCC CLONEDATABASE but is not copying the data. I'm using SQL Server 2014
I want to do it using an script without using any wizard.
1) Create your Database.
2) Generate the Schema Scripts of the Source Database
2.1) Right Click your source DatabseName > Generate Scripts.
2.2) Select "Script specific database objects", Select all Checked-boxes
2.3) Select "Save to new query window"
2.4) You will now see the scripts to create all the schemas, Where it say USE
[DatabseName] change that to your new Database.
3) Now for the Data, you do the same above but with a few changes.
You could do the data and Schema together, but I prefer to do it individually,
especially if you have large databases.
3.1) Right Click your source DatabseName > Generate Scripts.
3.2) Click on "Advanced"
3.3) Scroll down to "Types of data to script" and select "Data Only"
3.4) Select "Save to new query window"
3.5) You see all the data in a SQL script, again change the "USE [DatabseName]"
to your new Database.
In my SQL Server 2008 R2
Script Option Screen of Script Wizard under section Table/View Options Look I find Script Data row and want to turn the option to True but I fail.
I don't find any script data option. Why script data option missing on my SQL Server 2008 R2? Is there any command to generate the insert data option.
Why this problem arise? how to solve it? Thanks in advance
It looks like they removed it from that location. You can still do it by:
Right clicking on the DB
Click on tasks
Click on generate scripts
Go through the wizard and select your tables
On the options page click the Advanced button
Change the "Types of data to script" option, from the default "Schema only" to "Schema and data".
In SQL Server 2008 R2 you can go on the DB, right click on DB -> Tasks -> Generate scripts. This is the wizard for scripting the objects (with or without data). Follow the stepts described on the first page. At the third stept, "Set Scripting Options", after you choose your way to save /publish your data, you go on "Advanced" and there, for General Options, at line "Types of data to script" you can choose to script also your data ("Schema and data").
Say I already created my database but forgot to save the sql commands do create it.
How could I reverse engineer the code from an already existing database?
I'm using Microsoft SQL Server Express 2008.
You can do this pretty easily by using SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) - it's available for free if you don't already have it installed.
Connect to the database
Expand out Databases > YourDataBaseName.
Right-click on the database and select the option "Script database as" then "Create To" then finally "File".
That will create the necessary scripts to recreate your database.
To script out all the tables in your database:
Right-click on the database node
Select "Tasks" then "Generate Scripts".
When the wizard appears, click Next.
Select the database. At this point you can check the "Script all objects in the selected database" which does exactly what it says, or if you leave it unchecked you will get the option later in the process to pick which items are scripted.
Click next. Now you're given some scripting options.
I'd suggest scrolling down the list and checking the option to Script Indexes/Script Triggers. You can also script the data if necessary (though I wouldn't do this if you've got a lot of data in your database).
Modify any options you'd like and click Next.
Select the database types you'd like to script (Users/Tables/Views). Click Next.
Now you've got the opportunity to select more specific items. Hit Next and repeat the process of any of your other database types.
Hit next one more time, then select where you'd like the script written to. You get the chance to review your selections.
Click Finish.
Here's a link for the 2008 version SSMS Express 2008
Your RDBMS comes with some sort of "dump" tool that will give you the structure and content of your database, in the form of SQL statements.
As others have mentioned, if you have SQL Management Studio (you should, it's free as part of SQL Server Express). Fire it up, connect to your instance then expand the Database tree.
Right click on your database and select Tasks->Generate Scripts..
Click next, then Next again (which selects all objects in the database by default), pick an output option (defaults as "Save to File"), click next and voila!
If you also want to script the data as well as the schema, in the "Set Scripting Options" window, click on the Advanced button, scroll down to "Types of data to script" (just above the Table/View Options header) and select "schema and data".
[Edit] Tested - The Generate Scripts option exists and works in the (free) 2008 R2 edition of SSMS. See the link in my comment below for the URI for the R2 version.
Anytime I use 'script table as' -> 'Insert To' (or other command), the script generated automatically places the database name in the script. Such as:
INSERT INTO [DatabaseName].[dbo].[tblToBeInserted] ...
While not a huge problem to just delete it, it has slipped by a few times and the script breaks if run on a different server with a different database name but has the same schema. (Such as running on [DatabaseName.Test])
Is there an option I can change, or can I modify the output in any way to remove this?
Assuming that you are using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio 2005 or higher you can goto the Tools -> Options menu. On the dialog select "Scripting" from the left hand side. On the right-side in the "General Scripting Options" section there is an option called "SCRIPT USE ". You can set that to FALSE.
in SSMS 18.x, Go to the "Tools" menu and then select "Options". from the left side of the Options window select "SQL Server Object Explorer" and then "Scripting".
set "Script USE database" to False.
In SSMS, go to View -> Template Explorer, you can find a lot of templates there. Or, you can find these template .sql files from %appdata%\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\100\Tools\Shell\Templates\Sql
I am using SQL Server 2005. If I try to generate scripts for the dB using the Generate Scripts wizard in the management studio (Right click dB-> Tasks-> Generate Scripts)
I get no option like IF EXISTS DROP condition in the list. Whereas some of the SQL Servers installed on different machines have this option enabled.
Is the service pack missing or any option needs to be modified to get this feature?
If you right-click there is a page in the wizard where you can set your scripting options. One option is "Include IF NOT EXISTS". Or goto the Tools -> Options -> SQL Server Object Explorer-> Scripting to set this.
When I execute this command, all I get is a CREATE DATABASE statement and then the associated options are set.
You want to generate a DROP DATABASE statement?
It doesn't look like this functionality is present, but you can generate the drop statement and then paste it in front.