I'm aware that to generate the script we need to follow the steps in Management studio;
Right click the database
Select Tasks -> Generate Scripts
(Click next if you get the intro screen)
Select "Select specific database objects"
Pick the objects to generate scripts for (tables, stored procedures, etc...)
Click Next, then specify the output filename
This will generate the schemas only. If you want to do data generating scripts as well, click the Advanced button and scroll down to the "Types of data to script" and change it from "Schema only" to "Data only" or "Schema and data"
Click Finish to generate the script
But I do not want to every time to do this, is there any query or SP or functions to do the same Job, because since my work is to connect remote to client and get the schema to my local and do the job so following the above steps would be tedious and time consuming for me. it would much help full if any ready made script works are available.
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I'm looking for a way to script out an entire SQL Server 2015 database to write table creation scripts, stored procedure scripts, triggers, etc etc to a folder so I can set a baseline for a TFS repository solution. Apart from manually exporting each script one by one, is there a way to do a bulk export?
Obviously I'm not talking about data here, I'm talking strictly about exporting creation SQL file scripts to a folder for a single database.
Please try with SQL Server Management Studio.
To open the Generate and Publish Scripts Wizard. In Object Explorer, expand Databases, right-click a database, point to Tasks, and then click Generate Scripts. Follow the steps in the wizard to script the database objects. On the Choose Objects page, select the objects to be included in the script.
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms178078(v=sql.105).aspx
you can generate sql scripts in ssms by following steps:
Right Click on the Database
Go to task and then Click on "Generate Scripts..."
follow the wizard steps to create scripts
I have a set of legacy test data on several SQL Server databases which I want to extract in a form that I can replay onto an empty database (with the same schema). I want to do this so that I can manage my test data as SQL scripts (or other script format) in my source code control system - currently the test data created over many years just exists as SQL Server backups.
I dont think SQL Server can extract data in a format which will allow it to replay in referential integrity compliant order - or can it ? Alternatively its there a technical method for doing this that does not require dropping the referential integrity on the destination database while doing the data load ?
This is not quite as straightforward as one would wish, but it is certainly possible - we use the exact setup you describe at my workplace.
In order to generate insert scripts for all data, follow these steps:
Open a connection to the database engine in SQL Server Management Studio
Right-click the database, and choose "Tasks"->"Generate scripts...". A wizard opens.
Click "Next" a couple of times, until you are at the "Set Scripting Options" step. There, click the "Advanced" button.
In the list that opens, scroll down to find "Type of data to script", where "Schema only" is selected. Change to "Data only" or "Schema and data" depending on what you need ("Data only" would fit the description in your question).
Choose where to save the generated script (if you have a lot of data, a specified file is probably a good idea to avoid OutOfMemory errors...) and click "Next"/"Finish" as appropriate to generate the script.
Good luck!
Is there a tool or special query to do that. I'm not an database administrator.
Here are the steps to generate the scripts from a database along with data. The screenshots were taken using SQL Server 2012 Management Studio but I believe that the steps are similar for SQL Server 2008 as well.
Connect to the instance in which you would like to scrip the database along with data.
Right-click on the database and select the option Tasks --> Generate Scripts...
On the Generate and Publish Scripts wizard, click Next button.
On the Choose objects step, I have left the default selection Script entire database and all database objects checked. You can also select the option Select specific database objects and pick the objects of your choice.
On the Set Scripting Options step, select the path where you would like to save the script. Click on the Advanced button.
On the Advanced Scripting Options dialog, scroll down to the option Types of data to script. By default, this is set to Schema only, which means it will generate only the create object statements. If you want both object creation script along with data, select the option Schema and data. Click OK on the Advanced Scripting Options dialog and click Next on the Set Scripting Options step
On the Summary step, it will show all the options that you had selected. Click Next.
On the Save or Publich Scripts step, if everything goes well you will see Success status appear against each object and the script should be saved to the location that you specified on the Set Scripting Options step.
Scripting the entire AdventureWorks database turned to be a huge 522 MB script file!
Hope that helps.
Do you mean generating data script? If it is so then simply right click on the database name -Generate Scripts. In the advanced option in the wizard you get to choose "Type Of data script to add". Select data only there and you can get the data script
to what format?
are you only referring to 1 table or the whole database?
if you are exporting to an excel file from 1 table then all you have to do is
run a sql query statement to display all records then highlight all rows thru clicking on the top most right space of the grid and right click copy with column headers.
open excel and paste.
should be good to go.
Have you tried using SSMS tool pack? It is one of the best addins for SSMS.
I can Generate Create Scripts of my database in MS Sql Server Management Studio. But I need to move the database to a shared server with all the data in it.
Since I don't have full admin rights, I can not backup/restore .bak files or attach there. Is there any way to generate "Insert" queries which insert all of the data when I run them after create queries.
Yes. Here's how to do it:
Open up SSMS
Right-click on your database
Tasks -> Generate Scripts...
Choose the objects you want to script out (it sounds like you want the whole DB)
Under Set Scripting Options click the Advanced button
For the item Types of data to script, select Schema and data
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I'm looking for a way to do something analogous to the MySQL dump from SQL Server. I need to be able to pick the tables and export the schema and the data (or I can export the schema via SQL Server Management Studio and export the data separately somehow).
I need this data to be able to turn around and go back into SQL Server so it needs to maintain GUIDs/uniqueidentifiers and other column types.
Does anyone know of a good tool for this?
From the SQL Server Management Studio you can right click on your database and select:
Tasks -> Generate Scripts
Then simply proceed through the wizard. Make sure to set 'Script Data' to TRUE when prompted to choose the script options.
SQL Server 2008 R2
Further reading:
Robert Burke: SQL Server 2005 - Scripting your Database
SQL Server Management Studio
This is your best tool for performing this task. You can generate a script that will build whichever tables you wish from a database as well as insert the data in those tables (as far as I know you have to export all of the data in the selected tables however).
To do this follow these steps:
Right-click on your database and select Tasks > Generate Scripts
In the Generate and Publish Scripts wizard, select the "Select specific database objects" option
Expand the "Tables" tree and select all of the tables you wish to export the scheme and data for, then click Next
In the next screen choose how you wish to save the script (the Output Type must remain set as "Save scripts to a specific location"), then click the Advanced button in the top right corner
In the newly opened window, under the General section is a setting called "Types of data to script", set this to "Scheme and data" and click OK
Click Next, review the export summary and click Next again. This will generate the script to your selected destination.
To restore your database, simply create a new database and change the first line of your generated script to USE [Your.New.Database.Name], then execute. Your new database will now have all of the tables and data you selected from the original database.
I had a hell of a time finding this option in SQL Management Studio 2012, but I finally found it. The option is hiding in the Advanced button in the screen below.
I always assumed this contained just assumed advanced options for File generation, since that's what it's next to, but it turns out someone at MS is just really bad at UI design in this case. HTH somebody who comes to this thread like I did.
If you want to script all table rows then
Go with Generate Scripts as described by Daniel Vassallo. You can’t go wrong here
Else
Use third party tools such as ApexSQL Script or SSMS Toolpack for more advanced scripting that includes some preprocessing, selective scripting and more.
Check out SSMS Tool Pack. It works in Management Studio 2005 and 2008. There is an option to generate insert statements which I've found helpful moving small amounts of data from one system to another.
With this option you will have to script out the DDL separately.
SqlPubWiz.exe (for me, it's in C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\Publishing\1.2>)
Run it with no arguments for a wizard. Give it arguments to run on commandline.
SqlPubWiz.exe script -C "<ConnectionString>" <OutputFile>
BCP can dump your data to a file and in SQL Server Management Studio, right click on the table, and select "script table as" then "create to", then "file..." and it will produce a complete table script.
BCP info
https://web.archive.org/web/1/http://blogs.techrepublic%2ecom%2ecom/datacenter/?p=319
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa174646%28SQL.80%29.aspx
I know this has been answered already, but I am here to offer a word of warning.
We recently received a database from a client that has a cyclical foreign key reference. The SQL Server script generator refuses to generate the data for databases with cyclical references.