Schema Zen - Script and create SQL Server objects quickly

Schema Zen has three main commands:

script

dotnet schemazen script --server localhost --database db --scriptDir c:\somedir

This will generate sql scripts for all objects in the database in a directory structure that looks something like:

c:\somedir\
	data
	foreign_keys
	procedures
	tables
	views
	props.sql
	schemas.sql

create

dotnet schemazen create --server localhost --database db --scriptDir c:\somedir

This will create a database named db from the sql scripts in c:\somedir.

compare

dotnet schemazen compare --source "server=dev;database=db" --target "server=qa;database=db" --outFile diff.sql

This will compare the databases named db between dev and qa and create a sql script called diff.sql that can be run on qa to make it's schema identical to dev.

See dotnet schemazen help [command] for more information and options on each command.

Quick Start

If you don't already have a tool manifest in your project

dotnet new tool-manifest

Install SchemaZen

dotnet tool install SchemaZen

Script your database to disk

dotnet schemazen script --server localhost --database db --scriptDir c:\somedir

1.x versions

SchemaZen was changed to a cross platform dotnet tool in version 2.0. Older 1.x releases can be downloaded here

Contributing

Pull requests are welcome and appreciated. See contributing.md for guidelines.

Chat

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