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 0.16.3665.39354 (c) by devio.at 2008-2010

    list and script databases and database objects.

    usage: smoscript [options] [command]

    options: (leading '-' or '/')

    -s server       server name
    -d database     database name
    -o [schema.]object  object name
    -u username     username (default: integrated authentication)
    -p password     password (if -u is missing, password for sa)

    -r              generate DROP statements
    -i              include IF NOT EXISTS statements

    -f filename     output to file
    -F directory    output to directory

    -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

    commands:

    l               list
    s               script object/s
    db              list database properties

    list databases on server (implied by -s)
    list objects in database (implied by -s -d)
    script all objects (implied by -s -d -F/-f)
 

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

Resulting script 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.