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Generate Script For Database Objects Using SSMS

Database Schema

Steps

1. Right-click on the database, and go to "Tasks" → "Generate Scripts…"

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2. Following window appears on click of "Generate Scripts…"

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3. Click on "Next" button
4. Following window will appear

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In the above window, you can select the first radio button i.e., "Script entire database and all database objects" to generate the script for all database objects.

Or you can select the second radio button i.e., "Select specific database objects", if you want to generate script(s) for the particular object(s).


5. Click on the "Next" button.
6. Following window will appear

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1. Save the generated script as a file
2. Copy it on the clipboard
3. Show it in the new query window
4. Now, click on the "Next" button, and the following window will appear

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5. Click Next and scripts will be generated for the database objects as shown in figure below

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6. Click on Finish to complete the process. A script file will be created on specified path

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1. Script Drop and Create → There are three options
   1. Create → When you want to generate ‘create’ script only for database objects
   2. Drop → When you want to generate ‘drop’ script only for database objects
   3. Drop and Create → When you want to generate ‘drop and create’ script for database objects

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2. Types of data to script → There are three options
   1. Data only → When you only want to generate scripts for data only. This option is only valid for tables
   2. Schema and Data → When you want to generate scripts for schema of data objects and data of tables
   3. Schema only → When you want to generate scripts for schema only

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3. Script Indexes → It means while generating the script for tables, you also want to create a script for indexes as well then you can select this option to true

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