UPDATED with MORE features on 14th April 2001. This procedure generates INSERT statements using existing data from the given tables. Later, you can use these INSERT statements to generate the data. It's a kind of data scripting, just like scripting table structures. This procedure is very useful when you have to ship or package a database application, as you can use the INSERT scripts to copy the data.
Advantages of this procedure:
- No CURSORs are used
- All datatypes are handled except images
- NULLs are taken care of gracefully
- Timestamp columns are taken care of
- Identity columns are taken care of
- Column names, table names, owner names with spaces are taken care of
- Very flexible and configurable. Use the following 4 input parameters to customize the stored procedure:
- @Target_Table - You can specisy an alternate table name
- @Include_Column_List - You can either include or exclude the column list in the INSERT statement
- @From varchar(800) - Use this parameter to filter the rows based on a filter condition (using WHERE)
- @Include_Timestamp - Include or Exclude timestamp columns in the INSERT statement
- @debug_mode - Displays the contents of the key variables for debugging purposes
- @owner - To generate INSERTs for tables owned by non-DBO users
- @ommit_images - to generate INSERTs excluding the image columns
- @ommit_identity - to generate INSERTS excluding IDENTITY columns
- @top - to generate INSERTs only for the TOP n rows in the table
- @cols_to_include and @cols_toexclude to generate INSERTs by including or excluding specific columns.
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