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Last night I got completely hosed by a worm from Dilbert.com (so be careful there). It is invasive enough where I am going to do a complete system restore. The only thing I need to save on the pc is a database (consisting of just tables & stored procs) in SQL 2008. How can I export them so that, once I restore, I can easily import them again. I thought about doing Access, but that is never completely clean (data types get changed and such).
In addition to the backup operation, which restores everything, you can also use the Generate Scripts option in SQL Server Management Studio to create a text dump of all the tables, keys, stored procedures, users, and so on. This option is available by selecting your database (left click once), right click to get the option menu, then choose “Tasks” (which opens a new submenu) and then “Generate Scripts…”. Note that the Generate Scripts wizard is NOT the came as the “Script Database As” option. The “Script Database As” option is very limited, and won’t give you many of the database entities you need for a complete restore of the schema.