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parsi_divya

Posted Wednesday, July 18, 2012 6:06 AM

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Hi,

Is there any function which gives the table creation script.

something like below
create table <table>
(
id number,
name varchar(100))

Please help me.

I have found some approaches in google, where we need to create our function to achieve this
http://www.sqlteam.com/forums/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=120447

http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/madhivanan/archive/2007/08/27/generate-sql-script.aspx

Is there any predefined function which got introduced by MS SQL server itself

Thanks in advance

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anthony.green

Posted Wednesday, July 18, 2012 6:09 AM

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Easiest way is

In SSMS, expand database, expand tables, right click table, expand script table as, expand create to, click new query editor window.

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Lowell

Posted Wednesday, July 18, 2012 6:18 AM

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if you've gotta do it via TSQL, instead of stepping out via SMO to get it , i've spent a lot of time refining a few stored procedures to do that via TSQL.

sp_GetDDLa_Latest.txt returns a multi row table with the definitiion of any table, temp table, proc function or trigger.
sp_GetDDL_Latest.txt returns a single varchar(max) with the definitiion of any table, temp table, proc function or trigger.

both methods serve differnet functions; the first makes it REALLY readable.
the second is great when you want to stuff a CREATE TABLe definition into a field when auditing your scripts.

Lowell

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