Generate Create Table Statements

Question

Hi, the problem is:
My company want to migrate our SQL Server DB to Winwows Azure Server (currently we have our own domain and server), but Azure doesn't support the sentence 'Into' to create temporary tables, so we should replace all 'Into' sentences to corresponding 'Create
Table' statements. Our system have up 1000 SP's with 'Into' sentences and many SP's have a lot of them.
My question: is possible generate a 'Create Table' statement automatically, from a 'select into' sentence? i want to know if Management Studio or external tool have this feature o something similar.
Sorry for my poor english but this is not my native language.
Thanks!

Answer 1

Try this one on for size. Run it against your existing DB. It'll give you create scripts you can use on your new DB.
WITH allCols AS (
SELECT s.name as sName, o.name AS oName, c.name AS cName, column_id,
CASE WHEN st.name in ('float','bigint','tinyint','int','smallint','bit','datetime','money','date','datetime2','uniqueidentifier','sysname','geography','geometry') THEN st.name
WHEN st.name in ('numeric','real') THEN st.name + '('+CAST(c.scale AS VARCHAR)+','+CAST(c.precision AS VARCHAR)+')'
WHEN st.name in ('varbinary','varchar','binary','char','nchar','nvarchar') THEN st.name + '(' + CAST(ABS(c.max_length) AS VARCHAR) + ')'
ELSE st.name + ' unknown '
END + ' '+
CASE WHEN c.is_identity = 1 THEN 'IDENTITY ' ELSE '' END +
CASE WHEN c.is_nullable = 0 THEN 'NOT ' ELSE '' END + 'NULL' AS bText,
f.name AS fileGroupName
FROM sys.columns c
INNER JOIN sys.objects o
ON c.object_id = o.object_id
AND o.type = 'U'
INNER JOIN sys.systypes st
ON c.user_type_id = st.xusertype
INNER JOIN sys.schemas s
ON o.schema_id = s.schema_id
INNER JOIN sys.indexes i
ON o.object_id = i.object_id
AND i.index_id = (SELECT MIN(index_id) FROM sys.indexes WHERE object_ID = o.object_id)
INNER JOIN sys.filegroups f
ON i.data_space_id = f.data_space_id
), rCTE AS (
SELECT sName, oName, cName, column_id, CAST(cName + ' ' + bText AS VARCHAR(MAX)) as bText, CAST(cName AS VARCHAR(MAX)) AS colList, fileGroupName
FROM allCols
WHERE column_id = 1
UNION ALL
SELECT r.sName, r.oName, r.cName, c.column_id, CAST(r.bText +', ' + c.cName + ' ' +c.bText AS VARCHAR(MAX)), CAST(r.colList+ ', ' +c.cName AS VARCHAR(MAX)), c.fileGroupName
FROM allCols c
INNER JOIN rCTE r
ON c.oName = r.oName
AND c.column_id - 1 = r.column_id
), allIndx AS (
SELECT 'CREATE '+CASE WHEN is_unique = 1 THEN ' UNIQUE ' ELSE '' END+i.type_desc+' INDEX ['+i.name+'] ON ['+CAST(s.name COLLATE DATABASE_DEFAULT AS NVARCHAR )+'].['+o.name+'] (' as prefix,
CASE WHEN is_included_column = 0 THEN '['+c.name+'] '+CASE WHEN ic.is_descending_key = 1 THEN 'DESC' ELSE 'ASC' END END As cols,
CASE WHEN is_included_column = 1 THEN '['+c.name+']'END As incCols,
') WITH ('+
CASE WHEN is_padded = 0 THEN 'PAD_INDEX = OFF,' ELSE 'PAD_INDEX = ON,' END+
CASE WHEN ignore_dup_key = 0 THEN 'IGNORE_DUP_KEY = OFF,' ELSE 'IGNORE_DUP_KEY = ON,' END+
CASE WHEN allow_row_locks = 0 THEN 'ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = OFF,' ELSE 'ALLOW_ROW_LOCKS = ON,' END+
CASE WHEN allow_page_locks = 0 THEN 'ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = OFF' ELSE 'ALLOW_PAGE_LOCKS = ON' END+
')' as suffix, index_column_id, key_ordinal, f.name as fileGroupName
FROM sys.indexes i
LEFT OUTER JOIN sys.index_columns ic
ON i.object_id = ic.object_id
AND i.index_id = ic.index_id
LEFT OUTER JOIN sys.columns c
ON ic.object_id = c.object_id
AND ic.column_id = c.column_id
INNER JOIN sys.objects o
ON i.object_id = o.object_id
AND o.type = 'U'
AND i.type <> 0
INNER JOIN sys.schemas s
ON o.schema_id = s.schema_id
INNER JOIN sys.filegroups f
ON i.data_space_id = f.data_space_id
), idxrCTE AS (
SELECT r.prefix, CAST(r.cols AS NVARCHAR(MAX)) AS cols, CAST(r.incCols AS NVARCHAR(MAX)) AS incCols, r.suffix, r.index_column_id, r.key_ordinal, fileGroupName
FROM allIndx r
WHERE index_column_id = 1
UNION ALL
SELECT o.prefix, COALESCE(r.cols,'') + COALESCE(', '+o.cols,''), COALESCE(r.incCols+', ','') + o.incCols, o.suffix, o.index_column_id, o.key_ordinal, o.fileGroupName
FROM allIndx o
INNER JOIN idxrCTE r
ON o.prefix = r.prefix
AND o.index_column_id - 1 = r.index_column_id
SELECT 'CREATE TABLE ['+sName+'].[' + oName + '] ('+bText+') ON [' + fileGroupName +']'
FROM rCTE r
WHERE column_id = (SELECT MAX(column_id) FROM rCTE WHERE r.oName = oName)
UNION ALL
SELECT prefix + cols + CASE WHEN incCols IS NOT NULL THEN ') INCLUDE ('+incCols ELSE '' END + suffix+' ON [' + fileGroupName +']'
FROM idxrCTE x
WHERE index_column_id = (SELECT MAX(index_column_id) FROM idxrCTE WHERE x.prefix = prefix)
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