Question

The deployment procedures in my company require that SQL scripts for creation of procedures and tables, etc. be bare.

Generating create scripts in SQL Server Management Studio gives you significantly more than a bare script, which is unfortunate in this case. For example, for a test table this is what SSMS generated for me:

USE [DemoDB]
GO

/****** Object:  Table [dbo].[example]    Script Date: 08/07/2012 15:46:32 ******/
SET ANSI_NULLS ON
GO

SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO

CREATE TABLE [dbo].[example](
    [fake_row] [int] NULL
) ON [PRIMARY]

GO

So, what I’d like to know is:

Can I somehow run a query on SQL Server in SSMS that would give me a script that was literally just the following?

create table example (
    fake_row int
)

Answer 1

Apologies for the self-answer, marking other good answers +1.

It turns out you can get pretty much all of the way there with utility in SSMS.

1. Right click on the database in the object explorer
2. Click “Tasks”
3. Click “Generate Scripts”
4. Select “Script Specific Objects” and choose tables, or whatever else
5. Select “Save To File” & “Single File Per Object” (or just spool to query window)
6. Click “Advanced” and you can enable/disable the generation of virtually every part of the statements you’re generating including constraints, use statements, etc.
7. If further removal is required (e.g. removing GO), it’s minimal