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Re: How do I best take a sql dump with contents where you can see pk and fk

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From	Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se>
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Subject	Re: How do I best take a sql dump with contents where you can see pk and fk
Date	Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:07:06 +0200
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Tony Johansson (johansson.andersson@telia.com) writes:
> I want to get the name of the columns, the primary key and foreign key and 
> the contents.
> I want all this output to be stored in a file.
> I can do select * but can I redirect the output to a file.

You can save the output window. You can right-click in the query window
and select Results To->File. There is also BCP and SQLCMD if you want to 
automate the operation.

For tables and columns you can script the tables, and choose to script 
to file.

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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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How do I best take a sql dump with contents where you can see pk and fk "Tony Johansson" <johansson.andersson@telia.com> - 2012-07-16 13:59 +0200
  Re: How do I best take a sql dump with contents where you can see pk and fk Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2012-07-16 23:54 +0200
    Re: How do I best take a sql dump with contents where you can see pk and fk "Tony Johansson" <johansson.andersson@telia.com> - 2012-07-17 00:01 +0200
      Re: How do I best take a sql dump with contents where you can see pk and fk Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2012-07-17 00:07 +0200
      Re: How do I best take a sql dump with contents where you can see pk and fk "Bob Barrows" <reb01501@NOSPAMyahoo.com> - 2012-07-16 19:35 -0400
  Re: How do I best take a sql dump with contents where you can see pk and fk rja.carnegie@gmail.com - 2012-07-17 06:14 -0700

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