Generate Script in SQL Server Management Studio

Generate script in SQL Server Management Studio

Here what you have to do:

1. right click the database (not the table) and select tasks --> generate scripts
2. Next --> select the requested table/tables (from select specific database objects)
3. next --> click advanced --> types of data to script = schema and data
4. next and finish

How to generate scripts to recreate table using SQL Server Management Studio [Schema and data]?

1- Open SQL server Management Studio.

2- Right click on the DB that contains your desired table.

3- Select "Tasks => Generate Scripts...".

4- Follow on the wizard, and choose the objects that you want to generate scripts for (Tables, Views, Stored Procedures, etc... ).

5- From the next step, click on "Advanced", and for the node that is labeled "Types of data to script" choose "Schema and data".

6- Save your script and smile :)

Create Script for top 100 values from a table with SQL Server Management Studio

If you want to generate a INSERT script for the TOP 100 recordsets in a first step and execute the generated script in a second step you can try this:

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #source;
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS #target;

CREATE TABLE #source ( value1 INT, value2 VARCHAR(100) );
CREATE TABLE #target ( value1 INT, value2 VARCHAR(100) );

INSERT INTO #source
VALUES (10, 'A100'), (10, 'A101'), (10, 'A102'), (10, 'A103'), (20, 'B100'), (20, 'B101')

-- STEP 1: GENERATE SCRIPT

SELECT TOP 3 sql = 'INSERT INTO #target(value1, value2) VALUES' + '(' + CAST(value1 AS VARCHAR(100)) + ', ''' + value2 + ''');'
FROM #source
ORDER BY value2 DESC

-- STEP 2: EXEC GENERATED SCRIPT

INSERT INTO #target(value1, value2) VALUES(20, 'B101');
INSERT INTO #target(value1, value2) VALUES(20, 'B100');
INSERT INTO #target(value1, value2) VALUES(10, 'A103');

-- RESULT:

SELECT * FROM #target;

The cast and recast to VARCHAR may be exhausting if you have a lot of columns to handle.
If it is not necessary to create a interim script it would be easier this way:

INSERT INTO #target(value1, value2)
SELECT TOP 3 value1, value2 FROM #source;

Is there a way to (task) generate scripts from query window in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio?

After some more research, and even though I did not find exactly what I was looking for, I managed to find something that covered my needs, thanks to this posts:
- Generate SQL server scripts from command line?
- Script entire database SQL-Server
- https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/56616/sql-server-2012-generate-scripts-from-command-line

From the varied options the answers in them offer, I ended up using Schemazen (https://github.com/sethreno/schemazen), that did what I needed quick and easy.

How to Generate Scripts For All Triggers in Database Using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio

Database-> Tasks-> Generate Scripts -> Next -> Next

On Choose Script Options UI, under Table/View Options Heading, set Script Triggers to True.

How to generate scripts using SQL management studio for C# Usage

In SQL Management Studio (2008) you can right click on the database, select the Tasks option, then the Generate Scripts option. A wizard will walk you through generating a script or scripts for whatever you need in your database. You can then use this scripts in C# create tables/procedures/whatever.

Edit:
The following chunk of code should execute sql scripts with GO statements in them (on SQL 2008 anyway)

string script = File.ReadAllText("script.sql");
Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server server = new Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server();
server.ConnectionContext.LoginSecure = false;
server.ConnectionContext.Login = "user";
server.ConnectionContext.Password = "pass";
server.ConnectionContext.ServerInstance = "instance";
server.Databases["master"].ExecuteNonQuery(script);

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