Question

I have SQL Server 2005 and I am looking for a way to take a database dump

Set of create INSERT statements that reflects the database,

thanks in advance…

Answer 1

There are several ways of doing that. One of them is to use SMO. Here is an example in PowerShell:

$ServerInstance = "MyServer\MyInstance"
$MyBackupPath = "c:\temp\MyDump.sql"

$tables = @(
    'table1',
    'table2',
    '...'
    'lasttable'
)

$server = New-Object ('Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server') $ServerInstance
$scripter = New-Object ('Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Scripter') $server

$scripter.Options.SchemaQualify = $false
$scripter.Options.ScriptSchema = $false
$scripter.Options.ScriptData = $true
$scripter.Options.NoCommandTerminator = $true
$scripter.Options.ToFileOnly = $true
$scripter.Options.FileName = $MyBackupPath
$ServerUrn=$server.Urn 

$UrnsToScript = New-Object Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.UrnCollection

foreach ($t in $tables)
{ 
    $Urn = "$ServerUrn/Database[@Name='" + $database + "']/Table[@Name='" + $t + "' and @Schema='dbo']"
    $UrnsToScript.Add($Urn)
}

$scripter.EnumScript($UrnsToScript)