Oracle SQL Developer is able to export DDL through Tools -> Database Export... This works very well, but requires manual intervention.
I know of DBMS_METADATA.get_ddl(), what I want to do is save the generated DDL in client machine which I use to connect to the Oracle DB using Oracle SQL Developer, this can be done manually.
But, I am looking for an automatic/scriptable way to export (save to local machine) DDL identical to what is exported through the manual way.
This is the SQL command I used to get DDL.
select dbms_metadata.get_ddl('obJType','ObjName','Schema') from dual;
How can I do that?
You can use spool and dbms_output.put_line to spool the results to your local machine.
You can see the link for an example utl-file-saving-in-local-machine spooling and tweak the same as per your requirement.
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I have 4 different database connections in Oracle SQL Developer. All of them have the exact same set of packages and procedures. Every time I change something in my scripts I have to run it on all of the connections one-by-one. Is there no way to run it on all the connections at the same time?
I'm afraid that you can only execute SQL developer queries on different connections using the GUI.
You should, however, be able to acheive what you want using SQLPlus instead.
You can use "create database link" function:
CREATE DATABASE LINK linkDB_1
CONNECT TO xxxx IDENTIFIED BY xxxx
USING 'xxxxx';
SELECT *
FROM tablename#linkDB_1;
DROP DATABASE LINK linkdb_1;
I tested on my SQL Navigator, and it works.
I have a SQL database and tables that I would like to replicate in another SQL Server. I would like to create a SQL script that creates the database and tables in a single script.
I can create "Create" script using the SQL Management Studio for each case (Database and Tables), but I would like to know if combining the both "Create" scripts into single script would be enough.
Thanks.
Although Clayton's answer will get you there (eventually), in SQL2005/2008/R2/2012 you have a far easier option:
Right-click on the Database, select Tasks and then Generate Scripts, which will launch the Script Wizard. This allows you to generate a single script that can recreate the full database including table/indexes & constraints/stored procedures/functions/users/etc. There are a multitude of options that you can configure to customise the output, but most of it is self explanatory.
If you are happy with the default options, you can do the whole job in a matter of seconds.
If you want to recreate the data in the database (as a series of INSERTS) I'd also recommend SSMS Tools Pack (Free for SQL 2008 version, Paid for SQL 2012 version).
In SQL Server Management Studio you can right click on the database you want to replicate, and select "Script Database as" to have the tool create the appropriate SQL file to replicate that database on another server. You can repeat this process for each table you want to create, and then merge the files into a single SQL file. Don't forget to add a using statement after you create your Database but prior to any table creation.
In more recent versions of SQL Server you can get this in one file in SSMS.
Right click a database.
Tasks
Generate Scripts
This will launch a wizard where you can script the entire database or just portions. There does not appear to be a T-SQL way of doing this.
An excellent explanation can be found here: Generate script in SQL Server Management Studio
Courtesy Ali Issa Here's what you have to do:
Right click the database (not the table) and select tasks --> generate scripts
Next --> select the requested table/tables (from select specific database objects)
Next --> click advanced --> types of data to script = schema and data
If you want to create a script that just generates the tables (no data) you can skip the advanced part of the instructions!
Not sure why SSMS doesn’t take into account execution order but it just doesn’t. This is not an issue for small databases but what if your database has 200 objects? In that case order of execution does matter because it’s not really easy to go through all of these.
For unordered scripts generated by SSMS you can go following
a) Execute script (some objects will be inserted some wont, there will be some errors)
b) Remove all objects from the script that have been added to database
c) Go back to a) until everything is eventually executed
Alternative option is to use third party tool such as ApexSQL Script or any other tools already mentioned in this thread (SSMS toolpack, Red Gate and others).
All of these will take care of the dependencies for you and save you even more time.
Yes, you can add as many SQL statements into a single script as you wish. Just one thing to note: the order matters. You can't INSERT into a table until you CREATE it; you can't set a foreign key until the primary key is inserted.
How can I export all of my rows in a table to sql script in Microsoft SQL Server 2005 and then import them to another database?
Thanks in advance
If you moving it to another sql db you can right click the database you want and choose tasks -> generate scripts. That will launch a a wizard - follow along, choose the option to script all tables and data. Then execute that script in the new db(assuming that you've already created one with the same name)
If you can't find a data import/export tool that will work in your particular circumstances, it's possible to write plain SQL SELECT queries that will generate SQL INSERT statements. In this way it's possible to "export" all your data to a script file that can be run against the destination database. It's kind of an ugly hack, but it's simple and it works if you don't have a lot of data to move. See my answer to this question for details: Export SQL Server 2005 query result to SQL INSERT statement?
Note that this method assumes that the destination table already exists. But it's pretty straightforward to generate table creation scripts, as J Cory's answer has already shown.
There's a command line tool available to dump your data from particular tables into a SQL script that be executed against a different database:
http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2007/11/16/sql-server-2005-generate-script-with-data-from-database-database-publishing-wizard/
I don't believe SQL Management Studio Express supports data scripting (as your screenshot on J Cory's answer shows), but the full version does support that feature. In either case, the command line tool should accomplish what you need.
In Oracle SQL Developer, there's a "SQL" tab for each table. This tab contains most of the SQL code (CREATE TABLE, CREATE TRIGGER, etc) that's needed to recreate the table.
Is this information available programatically from the database system, or is this an application feature of SQL Developer? If the former, what commands/statements would I need to run to retrieve this information? If the later, are there any clever ways to get SQL Developer to export these statements?
If you are using Oracle 9i+ then you are looking for the DBMS_METADATA package. http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10500_01/appdev.920/a96612/d_metada.htm. It will allow you to extract whatever DDL you want.
If you are looking for more specific information there is a whole host of views you can access for specific data elements similar to the ones given by #Quassnoi.
There are lots of information, but here are the main queries:
SELECT *
FROM dba_tables
SELECT *
FROM dba_tab_columns
SELECT *
FROM dba_ind_columns
To see what SQL Developer actually outputs, enable trace for all sessions with a LOGON TRIGGER and look into the trace file created by SQL Developer's internal session.
You are looking for the DDL of your database objects.
You can use the Oracle bundled DBMS_METADATA package to get it, from any PL/SQL prompt, with the GET_DDL function.
I use TOAD vs Oracle SQL Developer.
When I click on a "Script" tab when viewing an object (like a table) TOAD executes a whole host of queries and then compiles the "script" from the output of all of these queries.
dba_tables
dba_tab_columns
dba_ind_columns
...
I think replicating this functionality would be a tedious task.
I have a table in an MS SQL Server db. I want to create a script that will put the table and all records into another db. So I right-click the table in Management Studio and select Create-To new query editor... but all I get is the table structure.
How exactly do I get the values too?
One of the things I really like about the tools for MySQL that SQL Server is missing out of the box to be certain.
You can use a script to do it however.
You might also want to consider using something like Red-Gate SQL Compare and Red-Gate SQL Data Compare. They aren't cheap tools, priced at $395 each (for the standard editions), but there are 14 day free trials available for download, and they make copying schema and data from one SQL Server to another very easy.
If both are on the same machine (or on different machines but the servers are linked)
you can create the table with the script you can generate automatically and do this to copy the data:
INSERT INTO [destinationdb].[dbo].[destinationtable] SELECT *
FROM [originaldb].[dbo].[originaltable]
(Prepend [servername] to the database name if you'll be using linked servers)
Another option is to enable xp_cmdshell (do with care, it's relaxing security constraints) and use the bcp command line utility from the management studio to create copies you can then import into the other database/server. You can do that directly from the shell as well and do not need to enable xp_cmdshell in that case, of course.
it doesn't really create a "SQL script" but it does the job :
select the database in the object explorer
right click
select import/export data
follow the wizard
at the end of the process you can save the "integration service package" to reuse it
later you can modify the details by opening the .dtsx
(it will take care of security, and won't cost one more penny, it's seems we have to compete with other answers :) )
hope it helps.