is it possible to download in a file all the table definition(create Statements) and Stored
Procedures from a SQL Server 2008 database?
Thanks
yes, right click on the database-->tasks-->generate scripts
This will bring up the scripting wizard, pick the objects you want and specify output
See also: How To Script Out The Whole Database In SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008
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Hello guys I have Tables , Views , Stored Procedure in my sql server and now I want to transfer it in Oracle but I don't how to do it. Is there any tools that I can use?. Thanks.
Yes. We (Oracle Corp) give you Oracle SQL Developer which includes a full database migration kit, including T-SQL translators which will move your code into Oracle PL/SQL.
Refer to Exporting data In SQL Server as INSERT INTO
Recently, my client gave me 40 .sql files, I believe he generated them by above method.
I look at the first .sql file, it contains create database, create table, and many insert statements.
How can I use these .sql files to recreate the whole database? We are using SQL Server 2008.
You can use Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio Express!
http://www.microsoft.com/it-it/download/details.aspx?id=7593
When I try to restore a backup from sqlserver 2008 R2 to sqlserver 2008, I have the following error:
There's a way to make a compatible backup ?
You can't because the structure is incompatible (can't go backwards).
Look at solutions like SSIS transfer between two connected servers, or if the database is small, script out the create db objects + insert data statements and execute on the other.
Or purchase some tool e.g. from Redgate for this task.
If you don't use R2 Futures in data base... You can generate script database (schema and data) in sql server 2008 R2.
Then create a database none any object. And run script for this data base in sql server 2008.
You find how to generate script database with data Click here
The question is probably extremely easy to resolve, but I need to resolve it because I need to carry on with my project. I am using SQL Server Express 2008 at home, and I've been working on an ASP.NET MVC app that stores my DB in an mdf file in the project's folder. The problem is that the SQL Server in the Uni labs is SQL Server 2005, and when I try to open the mdf file with the VS Server Explorer,It says that the version of the mdf file is more than the server can accept.
The only option that comes to my mind is exporting the DB as an sql file, just like I've done it thousand times with phpmyadmin. the thing is that the SQL Management Studio Express is not the most usable tool in the world, and for some strange reason all the articles I could find in Google were irrelevant. Please, help.
It is not possible to attach database created on SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server 2005. The other direction is possible.
Your only option is to script the database and data and run the scripts on SQL 2005. If you have used any of new features of the SQL Server 2008, you will have to rewrite the scripts.
I haven't used it much, but right click on database -> Tasks... -> Generate Scripts... / Export Data... / Import Data... should do the job right.
Google "Database Publishing Wizard", it's a tool from Microsoft to script an entire database, both schema and data.
you can script your db and its data. then run it on the target server to create a new db that is compatible with 2005 version.
Tools like Red-Gate SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can compare a live database to e.g. a backup file, so you could compare your SQL Server 2005 database against the SQL Server 2008 Express backup file, and move data that way.
Or you could possibly generate INSERT statements for your tables that have changed data using a tool like this one here or this one here. These can generate INSERT scripts for your tables, which you can take along and run on your SQL Server 2005 target system.
Is there a way to generate the sql statement for tables in sql server compact ?
same as for sql server express+ ?
Essentially a create table( .... ) statement as output ?
There is a project on Codeplex that someone has actually built the functionality to be able to do scripting for sql server compact edition databases.
There is a tool to do this. Check out http://www.antipodeansoftware.com/Home/Products
This will iterate the entire SQL server, and write all the table, view, stored procedure and UDF scripts to a local drive. Great for adding SQL schema or DDL to source control.
The plugin SQLite & SQL Server Compact Toolbox has versions for Visual Studio and SQL Server Management Studio. I've used the latter version successfully to add columns and export the schema as CREATE TABLE statements from SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5.
You can connect to SQL Server Compact Edition using SQL Server Management Studio(SSMS), which in turn allows you to script out all database objects.
Please refer to: Managing SQL Server Compact Edition with SQL Server Management Studio
and then also, How to: Generate a Script