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In Sql Server 2005, is there any way, using the official GUI or a third party tool, to select rows in a table and then generate a insert script for the selected rows?

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So instead of a generic insert you want the data specific to the selected row(s), correct? – squillman Jul 1 '09 at 14:41
Right. My issue is that I insert rows with the SQL Server GUI and then want to copy inserted rows to other servers. – James McMahon Jul 1 '09 at 14:46

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I do not know of tool that lets you do this using a nice GUI, but I do know of a nice stored procedure that you can use to generate inserts, based on select statement. The script was created by a guy named Narayana Vyas Kondreddi.

You can learn more about the script here.

You would use it like this:

EXEC sp_generate_inserts 'titles', @From = "from titles where title like '%Computer%'"

It's a real time-saver.

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SQuirreL SQL can do this:

Highlight a SELECT statement, then invoke Session/Scripts/Create data script from SQL.

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I can only get SQuirrel to copy specific columns from the rows into an insert, not the entire row. – James McMahon Jul 1 '09 at 18:25
Hm, if you do something like "SELECT * from tableA", then mark the whole statement with the mouse and invoke the menu option given above, it should work. How did you do it? – sleske Jul 1 '09 at 22:58
I'm having the same problem: Squirrel won't give me an INSERT script on a select(*) – George Jempty Oct 18 '12 at 18:54
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I would recommend you to use SQL Tool Belt from RedGate link text

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