SQL Server 2000 provides a tool called scptxfr which generates DROP and CREATE scripts for all objects in a database.

Since it is not included in the latest SQL Server versions, I developed a replacement for scptxfr which uses the .Net SMO libraries for script generation called SMOscript:

smoscript 0.19.4194.20191 (c) by devio.at 2008-2011

    list and script databases and database objects.

    usage: smoscript [options (leading '-' or '/')] [command]

    connection options:

    -s server       server name
    -d database     database name
    -u username     username (default: integrated authentication)
    -p password     password (if -u is missing, password for sa)
    -c connection   connection string (sets -s, -d, -u, -p)

    scripting options:

    -o [schema.]object  object name

    -r              generate DROP statements
    -i              include IF NOT EXISTS statements
    -use            generate USE [database]

    -f filename     output to file
    -fa             append to file if exists
    -F directory    output to directory

    listing options:

    -l[x]a          list [in]accessible databases
    -l[x]ro         list databases [not] read-only
    -l[x]sys        list [non-] system databases
    -ls             list database status

    dependency options:

    -depth          max. recursion depth
    -dxt            exclude tables in result

    find options:

    -fx string      exclude this string literal (multi)
    -fxs string     exclude strings starting with this literal (multi)
    -fi             find string case-insensitive
    -fc             find string and display code

    output options:

    -A              current ANSI codepage
    -O              ASCII
    -T              Unicode
    -U              UTF8

    commands:

    l           list databases on server (implied by -s)
                list objects in database (implied by -s -d)
    s           script all objects (implied by -s -d -F/-f)
                script single object (implied by -s -d -o)
    db          list database properties
    dep         list object dependencies (-o)
    fs          find string literals
    f string    find string in modules

 

The SMOscript utility implements the following functions:

• list all databases on a server
• list all scriptable objects in a database
• script CREATE or DROP statements for each object in database
• find string literals used in TSQL code
• find strings in TSQL modules
• display object dependencies

Resulting scripts are either written to a single file, or to a separate file for each object. Table scripts will include child objects such as constraints and triggers.

Command line switches were selected to be compatible with scptxfr, but support both “-” and “/” as switch marker.

devioblog describes the latest changes to SMOscript here. SMOscript is available for download here.