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Guru's Guide to SQL Server™ Stored Procedures, XML, and HTML, The
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Guru's Guide to SQL Server™ Stored Procedures, XML, and HTML, The

by Ken Henderson
December 2001
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
17h 55m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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sp_generate_script

Sp_generate_script provides a handy utility for scripting out objects from a database. It originally appeared in my last book, The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL, and has been updated for the latest release of the product and enhanced a bit since then.

You use sp_generate_script by passing it the name of the object you want to script. You can supply a mask with wildcards, if you like, or you can omit the name altogether and the current database will be scripted.

Sp_generate_script uses the SQL-DMO API to do its work. It creates DMO COM objects using sp_OACreate and calls methods on them using sp_OAMethod. Because DMO requires a connection to the server to do any type of scripting, you must pass login information into sp_generate_script ...

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