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Asked: 2026-05-15T18:01:05+00:00

I am currently writing a script that intelligently strips a database down into a

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I am currently writing a script that intelligently strips a database down into a series of ordered INSERT statements with seeded identity columns that will allow me to place the records into a new database without destroying any keys or relationships.

I am using the PRINT function to write the finished insert statements to the message window and saving to query to a file. However it seems like there is a max character limit for the message window, is there any way to change that?

This is a database with 120k users and I will end up with hundreds of thousands of insert statements so the file is gonna be pretty big.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I think we’ve all had this problem at some point, I’ll tell you how I ended up fixing it. Every message I wanted to output was inserted into a TEXT column on a separate table (in fact a separate database in my case). Once there you can export it to text, etc.

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