There has been a lot of feedback on SMOscript 0.18, and some feature requests are now implemented.![]()
The “script objects” command adds the options “-use” to add a USE [database] command to the generated file, and -fa option to append to existing files.
The “list database” command adds filters for the status of databases: system database, read-only, offline.
Instead of passing the login information using the switches -s, -d, -u, -p, you can now pass a connection string literal (such as used in web.config or app.config) using the -c switch.
New commands have been added as well:
- List object dependencies
- Find string literals
- Find strings
If an error or exception occurs, the ERRORLEVEL variable will be set (1 for parser errors, 2 to execution errors).
The complete help screen displays like this:
smoscript 0.19.4194.20191 (c) by devio.at 2008-2011
list and script databases and database objects.
usage: smoscript [options (leading '-' or '/')] [command]
connection options:
-s server server name
-d database database name
-u username username (default: integrated authentication)
-p password password (if -u is missing, password for sa)
-c connection connection string (sets -s, -d, -u, -p)
scripting options:
-o [schema.]object object name
-r generate DROP statements
-i include IF NOT EXISTS statements
-use generate USE [database]
-f filename output to file
-fa append to file if exists
-F directory output to directory
listing options:
-l[x]a list [in]accessible databases
-l[x]ro list databases [not] read-only
-l[x]sys list [non-] system databases
-ls list database status
dependency options:
-depth max. recursion depth
-dxt exclude tables in result
find options:
-fx string exclude this string literal (multi)
-fxs string exclude strings starting with this literal (multi)
-fi find string case-insensitive
-fc find string and display code
output options:
-A current ANSI codepage
-O ASCII
-T Unicode
-U UTF8
commands:
l list databases on server (implied by -s)
list objects in database (implied by -s -d)
s script all objects (implied by -s -d -F/-f)
script single object (implied by -s -d -o)
db list database properties
dep list object dependencies (-o)
fs find string literals
f string find string in modules
The latest version of SMOscript is available for download here.

Really cool tool! Thanks for all your work!