SQL Sever 2012 - 生成脚本 - 保存到文件 = 不运行

Question

I am creating scripts of a SQL Server 2012 database because I cannot backup the database to a local drive. I understand how to create the script but at the end of the process the application seems to get stuck at the Save to file = Not Run.

The database is a huge database, but it appears that not much data is being written to the drive.

Answer 1

This appears to be a bug in SQL Server 11.0.6020 tools. There is no trace in event log or server log, the script generator wizard just stops at the last step (which is writing the script to the destination, which can be a file or a new script window - either remains in status "not run" forever, with "Cancel" as the only possible user action).

Some experimenting showed that it indeed depends on script size. I was not able to reproduce the problem on any lower or newer version of Microsoft SQL Server.

The solution is annoying: click yourself through the wizard multiple times, first scripting only database definition in parts:

• datatypes, functions and tables
• then only views, and
• then only procedures

You can later concatenate the three resulting files if that is a requirement. This approach will not help if any of the three parts alone is bigger than the (unknown) treshold. Eventually, script the data, selecting only smaller sets of tables for each run.

Answer 2

As mentioned in one of the comments on the original post, this is still an issue with SQL Server Management Studio v17.9.1 To work around it, I was able to use the "Single file per object" option. I definitely would have preferred a single file, but at least it worked this way. There was still a bit of a delay between the time that the status for all database objects showed Completed and the time that the "Save to file" line item changed from "Not Run" to Completed.