In SQL Server, how do I generate a CREATE TABLE statement for a given table?

Question

I\'ve spent a good amount of time coming up with solution to this problem, so in the spirit of this post, I\'m posting it here, since I think it might be useful to others. <

Answer 1

I realise that it's been a very long time but thought I'd add anyway. If you just want the table, and not the create table statement you could use

select into x from db.schema.y where 1=0

to copy the table to a new DB