Create SQL INSERT Script with values gathered from table

Question

I need to create a INSERT script in order to insert in another database the same data.
If in SQL Server I select \"Script table as > INSERT To\" I can easily recreate t

Answer 1

It will depend on the data types, because you need to conditionally enclose string values in quotes or cast numeric values as strings. You also need to deal with problem characters:

SELECT 'INSERT INTO dbo.DestinationTable(col1, col2, col3) 
    SELECT ' + CONVERT(VARCHAR(12), col1) + ',' 
        + '''' + REPLACE(col2, '''', '''''') + ''','
        + '''' + REPLACE(col3, '''', '''''') + ''';'
    FROM dbo.SourceTable;

Vyas has a pretty complex stored procedure for this purpose.

Of course you can do this much easier by just saying:

INSERT INTO OtherDatabase.dbo.DestinationTable(col1, col2, col3)
    SELECT col1, col2, col3 FROM dbo.SourceTable;

In other words, you don't need to "script" an insert, you can just run it...