Auto-Generate Insert Statements With Data Using SQL Server Management Studio

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If you are working with a database in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS), you may find you need a way to auto-generate INSERT statements with the data from a table. This might be for inserting the data into a different database for testing purposes, or simply as a backup.

The Generate Scripts feature of SQL Server Management Studio will let you choose an area of the database (e.g. a table) for generating Transact-SQL scripts. It will let you choose one or more database objects and you can generate scripts for the schema, the data or both.

You can find the Generate Scripts feature in the context menu of the database. Right-click on the database, navigate to Tasks and then Generate Scripts:

Click Next in the Introduction:

In Choose Objects, choose a database object, or multiple objects:

In Set Scripting Options, click Advanced:

This is important as you can now tell the Generate Scripts feature to generate scripts for the schema, the data or both:

If you chose to generate scripts for both the schema and the data, you should see the following:

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