SMOscript 0.19

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.