Hi There,
I usually do not promote products; However, red gates source control software plug in allows you to save data into SVN. This data then can be restored with the schema to another database.
If you do not have the money to spend, BCP the data out/in using your favorite text format. Check out my blog showing how to do this.
Microsoft even does this with the Adventure Works install script using a CSV format. I like a tilda ~ or fixed format since tabs do occur in unclean data.
BULK INSERT [Person].[ContactType] FROM '$(SqlSamplesSourceDataPath)ContactType.csv'
WITH (
CHECK_CONSTRAINTS,
CODEPAGE='ACP',
DATAFILETYPE='char',
FIELDTERMINATOR='\t',
ROWTERMINATOR='',
KEEPIDENTITY,
TABLOCK
);
Good luck
John
John Miner
Crafty DBA
www.craftydba.com