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the pop-up menu, choose Script Database As ➪ CREATE To ➪ New Query Editor Window, as shown in
Figure 5-10.
Figure 5-10
Whoa! SQL Server generates a heck of a lot more code than we saw when we created our database to
begin with. Don’t panic, however — all it is doing is being very explicit in scripting major database
settings rather than relying on defaults as we did when we scripted it ourselves.
Note that we are not limited to scripting the database — if you want to script other objects in the database,
just navigate and right-click on them much the way that you right-clicked on the Accounting database and,
boom!, you’ve got yourself a SQL Script.
As you can see, scripting couldn’t be much easier. Once you get a complex database put together, it still
isn’t quite as easy as it seems in this particular demonstration, but it is a lot easier than writing it all out
by hand. The reality is that it really is pretty simple once you learn what the scripting options are, and
we’ll learn much more about those later in the book.
Summary
Chapter 5: Creating and Altering Tables
In this chapter, we’ve covered the basics of the CREATE, ALTER, and DROP statements as they relate to
creating a database and tables. There are, of course, many other renditions of these that we will cover as
we continue through the book. We have also taken a look at the wide variety of options that we can use
in databases and tables to have full control over our data. Finally, we have begun to see the many things
that we can use the Management Studio for in order to simplify our lives, and make design and scripting
simpler.
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