Could someone please tell me if there is someway to invoke the SQL Script Wizard programmatically or through the command line?
It's a great tool for deployment but I am sick of having to set the countless options each time I use it.
Could someone please tell me if there is someway to invoke the SQL Script Wizard programmatically or through the command line?
It's a great tool for deployment but I am sick of having to set the countless options each time I use it.
The SSMS scripting wizard is just a shell over the Scripter
SMO object capabilities. From the scripting example on MSDN:
using System;
using Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo;
using Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Sdk.Sfc;
public class A {
public static void Main() {
String dbName = "AdventureWorksLT2008R2"; // database name
// Connect to the local, default instance of SQL Server.
Server srv = new Server();
// Reference the database.
Database db = srv.Databases[dbName];
// Define a Scripter object and set the required scripting options.
Scripter scrp = new Scripter(srv);
scrp.Options.ScriptDrops = false;
scrp.Options.WithDependencies = true;
scrp.Options.Indexes = true; // To include indexes
scrp.Options.DriAllConstraints = true; // to include referential constraints in the script
// Iterate through the tables in database and script each one. Display the script.
foreach (Table tb in db.Tables) {
// check if the table is not a system table
if (tb.IsSystemObject == false) {
Console.WriteLine("-- Scripting for table " + tb.Name);
// Generating script for table tb
System.Collections.Specialized.StringCollection sc = scrp.Script(new Urn[]{tb.Urn});
foreach (string st in sc) {
Console.WriteLine(st);
}
Console.WriteLine("--");
}
}
}
You should be writing the scripts yourself as you create and change table structures, they should be in source control and associated with a particular release. There is no excuse for treating database changes any different than any other code and database changes should never be made using the GUI.