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How do I create an insert script ?

Zones: MS SQL Server, MS SQL DTS

Tags: Microsoft, SQL Server 2000

I want to be able to create a text file from SQL 2000 that I can then use the script in the text in SQL Query Analyzer on a web absed SQL manager to;

1) create the table
2) insert the data into the new table.

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Zone: Microsoft

Question Asked By: GianniP

Solution Provided By: Banthor

Participating Experts: 3

Solution Grade: B

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05.08.2008 at 02:59PM PDT, ID: 21528833

ibrusett:

Something like:

CREATE TABLE MyTable (
Id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY,
Nome VARCHAR(50))

INSERT INTO MyTable (Id, Nome)
VALUES
(1, 'Pippo')

INSERT INTO MyTable (Id, Nome)
VALUES
(2, 'Pluto')

Or may be I misunderstood?

05.08.2008 at 03:02PM PDT, ID: 21528851

rlively:

In SQL Server 2000 Enterprise Manager, expand the tree for your server until you get to the table list, then right-click on the table you want to script and select "All Tasks > " Generate SQL Script." That will give you the creation script to create the table on a new SQL Server.

To generate a script to INSERT all the rows, use the one here: http://vyaskn.tripod.com/code/generate_inserts.txt.

Together those should get you what you need.

sp-generate-inserts-the-sql.txt (18 KB) (File Type Details)

The SQL to create the Stored Procedure to let you generate INSERT statements for the data

sp-generate-inserts.txt (4 KB) (File Type Details)

The help file for the Stored Procedure

05.08.2008 at 06:09PM PDT, ID: 21529756

Banthor:

I am not sure your purpose here. I would refer you to BCP for moving data across a disconnected state.
I am assuming you can use the create table scripts included above.

You can also use the for xml clause, coalesce, and replace function on a select

Declare @script nvarchar(4000)
select
@script = COALESCE(@script,'') + 'insert into newtable(id,name), values(' + cast(isnull(ID,0) as varchar(50)) + ',' + char(39) + [name] + char(39) + ');' + char(13) + char(10)
from sysobjects

Print @script

05.09.2008 at 02:05AM PDT, ID: 21531216

GianniP:

what is BCP

05.09.2008 at 06:31AM PDT, ID: 21532540

rlively:

BCP is Bulk Copy Program. See http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/3391761 and http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa174646(SQL.80).aspx.

You can also use a DTS package to load data and tables from one database instance to another. Right-click on your database, All tasks > Export data.

05.09.2008 at 07:41AM PDT, ID: 21533293

Banthor:

I woud stay away from DTS if there is a possibility of this being more than a one-time task.
It is deporicated in favor of SSIS in SQL2005.
Further part of my guess on the need here is that the two data stores are not able to connect to eachother. hence the flat file requirement.

BCP "Bulk Copy Process" is specifically designed to extract and insert large recordsets from one database to another even more efficiently than DTS and SSIS

05.09.2008 at 02:46PM PDT, ID: 21536578

GianniP:

I can't use either. I have sql 2000 on my dev machine and the live db is with a web host. The only manager I have is a web based MS SQL manager.

All I want to do is import data into the online sql.

05.09.2008 at 03:41PM PDT, ID: 21536836

GianniP:

ok I'm trying this:
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Declare @script nvarchar(4000)
select
@script = COALESCE(@script,'') + 'insert into newtable(id,name), values(' + cast(isnull(ID,0) as varchar(50)) + ',' + char(39) + [name] + char(39) + ');' + char(13) + char(10)
from sysobjects

Print @script
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

I'm only getting back 10 results but there are about 240 records

05.12.2008 at 02:32PM PDT, ID: 21550696

GianniP:

this solution did not work for me and contributors did not answer further questions.

In the end I just wrote a smll c# prgram to append text to a sql export.

05.12.2008 at 07:56PM PDT, ID: 21551950

Banthor:

The reason you are seeing only 10 results is a limitaion of Query analyzer.
there are settings that might allow more but better is too ditch the Coalesce method
Please answer this, Are you intending on performing this process more than once on changing underlyng data?

The script below is not limited to 4000 characters.
A simple cheat to get this in a text file, is too use the cmd line Query tool
('isql' I think I have forgotten, it is SQLcmd in 2005.)
and output the results into your text file.

                       
Declare @ID bigint, @Name sysname
Declare @script nvarchar(4000)
 
Declare Script_Cursor cursor read_only
for
  Select ID, [Name] from Sysobjects
 
OPEN Script_Cursor
 
FETCH NEXT FROM Script_Cursor INTO @ID, @NAme
WHILE (@@fetch_status <> -1)
BEGIN
	IF (@@fetch_status <> -2)
	BEGIN
 
select 
  @script = 'insert into newtable(id,name), values(' + cast(isnull(@ID,0) as varchar(50)) + ',' + char(39) + @Name + char(39) + ');' + char(13) + char(10)
from sysobjects
 
Print @script
 
	END
	
FETCH NEXT FROM Script_Cursor INTO @ID, @NAme
END
 
CLOSE Script_Cursor
DEALLOCATE Script_Cursor

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05.13.2008 at 09:26AM PDT, ID: 21556664

rlively:

The methods and stored procedures I posted work perfectly. I have used them in the past to generate INSERTs for even more rows than you are describing. Did you try that method?

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