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Asked: 2026-05-14T21:23:13+00:00

SQL Server 2008 provides the ability to script data as Insert statements using the

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SQL Server 2008 provides the ability to script data as Insert statements using the Generate Scripts option in Management Studio. Is it possible to access the same functionality from within a SSIS package?

Here’s what I’m trying to accomplish:

I have a scheduled job that runs nightly and scripts out all the schema and data from an SQL Server 2008 database. It then uses the script to create a mirror copy SQLCE 3.5 database. I’ve been using Narayana Vyas Kondreddi’s sp_generate_inserts stored procedure to accomplish this, but it has problems with few data types and also has issues with handling more than 4,000 columns (holdovers from SQL Server 2000 days).

The Script Data function looks like it could solve my problems, if only I could automate it.

Any suggestions?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Use my Export2SqlCE command line utility, which scripts both data and schema in SQL Compact compatible script. SMO does not support SQL Compact syntax and data type conversion.

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