UbhiTS / SqlDbScripter

Easily script a SQL Server Database (objects and data) and recreate them with the correct sequence and dependencies of objects

Sql Database Scripter

Easily script a SQL Server Database (objects and data) and recreate them with the correct sequence and dependencies of objects on the same or different server. Each SQL Object will be output into it's own file, and on the target server, the Files will be executed in order so that all your foreign keys, data, indexes etc. will recreate wihout issues. You even have the option of merging multiple databases in a single database with this utility.

This utility extends the functionality of the SQL Generate Scripts task. You will notice that if you generate the scripts and output to a single file, you can execute on the target server and everything will execute well and without warnings or errors. However, if you output to multiple files, you have to make sure that you execute the files in the correct sequence or you may get errors and warnings.

With this utility, you can create scripts of all objects in separate files, and with the output, you get a CSV file in which the sequence of the objects to be executed on the target server is defined.

There can be multiple benefits of this approach :-

• SQL Server Source Control

  • If on every release you snapshot the golden/vanilla database with the Sql Database Scripter utility and check-in the generated output files into any source control like SVN, TFS etc, you can achieve SQL Database Source Code easily.

• Move Databases to a new DB Server across or on same network

  • You can script the databases on the source server and then execute the scripts on a new target server. You can also change the database names during this process

• Merge Multiple Databases

  • You can script out the databases into source files and then on the target server give the same target database name for all source databases

Usage

1. Edit the 01-SQLDbScripter.ps1 script parameters and run in powershell. The dbnames parameter defines the sequence and the names of the databases to script on the source server

$SourceServer = "<sqldbserver>"
$DBUsername = "<sqlusername>"
$DBPassword = "<sqlpassword>"
$TargetDBFiles = "C:\DBScripts\" + $SourceServer
$dbnames = @(
"db1", 
"db2", 
"db3", 
"db4")

2. Create the empty databases on the Target Server once the above script run completes.

3. Edit the 02-SQLDbInstaller.ps1 script and execute. The DBDict parameter defines the sequence and the names of the database to execute on the target server. You can merge all databases into one by specifying 1 target for all source databases

$TargetServer = "<sqldbserver>"
$DBUsername = "<sqlusername>"
$DBPassword = "<sqlpassword>"
$SourceDBFiles = "C:\DBScripts\<SourceFilesPath>"
$DBDict = [ordered]@{
"db1"="db1"; # source database name and target database names are same
"db2"="new_db2"; # source database name is recreated with different name
"db3"="merged_db"; # multiple source databases are merged into target database
"db4"="merged_db"; # multiple source databases are merged into target database
}

I hope you find this script useful. Any comments and suggestions are welcome and appreciated!