Question

I am using Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio and have access to a bunch of views without the original tables that the view depends on. I have copied some data from this view into a file and would like to import it into a database that I locally created to do some analysis.

The brute-force way of doing this is to manually write down the CREATE TABLE statement looking at the columns in the view but is there a better way to get the CREATE or CREATE VIEW statement that I can directly use to recreate a similar table in my localhost?

Answer 1

Create a linked server in your localhost to this server. Then use (while connected to localhost)

SELECT * INTO NewTableName FROM LinkedServer.DBName.SchemaName.View

and a new table in your current DB in localhost would be created.