How to dump a Microsoft SQL Server database to a SQL script?

In SQL Server Management Studio right-click your database and select Tasks / Generate Scripts. Follow the wizard and you’ll get a script that recreates the data structure in the correct order according to foreign keys. On the wizard step titled “Set Scripting Options” choose “Advanced” and modify the “Types of data to script” option to “Schema and data”

TIP: In the final step select “Script to a New Query Window”, it’ll work much faster that way.

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