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extracting the table definition from one tabke and create same tables on another database

Hi All
I have a requirement where in I need to create a bunch of tables in a database. I am getting the table defnitions from 5 different databases and creating the same into this newly created database.

example: lets assume there are 3 databases

Database= A (with tables: X and Y),
Database = B (with table: P and Q)

Now I want to create those tables X, Y, P and Q into the Database C. If I do it manually, I get the table definitions from the databases A and B and create them manually in Database C. Is there any script to do this automatically. So that I can give the following to that script

Source Database:
List of tables in Source DB
Destination DB.

So that the script can go to Source Db, get the table definition in that and create the same tables in Destination database.

any help is appreciated.

Thanks

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PegasusAloft

You didn't specify what version or type of Sybase you were running (ASE or ASA) but this might be a starting point to get you in the right direction:

select A.Table_name, B.column_name,
(Select domain_name from SYSDOMAIN where domain_id = B.domain_id) as DataType,
B.width as DataWidth,
B.scale as DataScale,
(CASE Pkey
when 'Y' then 'YES'
else NULL
END) as Pkey
from SYSTABLE A, SYSCOLUMN B
where B.table_id = A.table_id and A.Table_Name NOT LIKE ('SYS%')
order by Table_Name, column_id;

This will grab all of the tables that don't begin with SYS and give you a column layout. It should be easy to modify the script to suit your purposes to dynamically generate the tables (IF EXISTS test on database C to see if it needs to be generated or not).

Probably an easier to go into Sybase Central and generate an UNLOAD script on each database, bring it over to server C and run it in iSQL. Simply "continue" through any errors where the table already exists to move on to the next CREATE TABLE statement.