Question

When extracting data from a table (schema and data) I can do this by right clicking on the database and by going to tasks->Generate Scripts and it gives me all the data from the table including the create script, which is good.

This though gives me all the data from the table – can this be changed to give me only some of the data from the table? e.g only data on the table after a certain dtmTimeStamp?

Thanks,

Answer 1

I would recommend extracting your data into a separate table using a query and then using generate scripts on this table. Alternatively you can extract the data separately into a flatfile using the export data wizard (include your column headers and use comma seperators with double quote field delimiters).

To make a copy of your table:

SELECT Col1 ,Col2 
INTO CloneTable 
FROM MyTable 
WHERE Col3 = @Condition

(Thanks to @MarkD for adding that)