Question

I have read only permission on a SQL Server 2005 database, and I’m looking to get a table schema locally to work with. With my current access it won’t let me right click on the table and choose ‘Create Table’ to get the script for this.

Is there a way to generate the create table script from a select statement or by some other mechanism?

Thank you!

Answer 1

You could create a linked server on your local machine. Then, you can use select ... into to copy the table, including data:

select  *
into    NewTableName
from    [LinkedServerName].[DatabaseName].dbo.TableName

This will not copy indexes or constraints. To exclude the data, use select top 0 *.