Question

What SQL can be used to copy the schema of a specified table to a table in different database?

Answer 1

SELECT INTO will create a new table with the same schema. So you could:

 SELECT *
 INTO newdb.dbo.newtable
 FROM olddb.dbo.oldtable

To just copy the schema and not the data:

 SELECT TOP 0 *
 INTO newdb.dbo.newtable
 FROM olddb.dbo.oldtable

This would not copy indexes or keys. To copy those, right click the table in SQL Sever Management Studio and choose ‘Script table as’. That will give you a script you can run on the new database.