SQL Server 2008 - Script Data as Insert Statements from SSIS Package
- by Brandon King
SQL Server 2008 provides the ability to script data as Insert statements using the Generate Scripts option in Management Studio. Is it possible to access the same functionality from within a SSIS package?
Here's what I'm trying to accomplish...
I have a scheduled job that nightly scripts out all the schema and data for a SQL Server 2008 database and then uses the script to create a "mirror copy" SQLCE 3.5 database. I've been using Narayana Vyas Kondreddi's sp_generate_inserts stored procedure to accomplish this, but it has problems with some datatypes and greater-than-4K columns (holdovers from SQL Server 2000 days).
The Script Data function looks like it could solve my problems, if only I could automate it.
Any suggestions?