SET NOCOUNT ON GO PRINT 'Using Master database' USE master GO PRINT 'Checking for the existence of this procedure' IF (SELECT OBJECT_ID('sp_generate_merge','P')) IS NOT NULL --means, the procedure already exists BEGIN PRINT 'Procedure already exists. So, dropping it' DROP PROC sp_generate_merge END GO --Turn system object marking on CREATE PROC sp_generate_merge ( @table_name varchar(776), -- The table/view for which the MERGE statement will be generated using the existing data @target_table varchar(776) = NULL, -- Use this parameter to specify a different table name into which the data will be inserted/updated/deleted @from varchar(800) = NULL, -- Use this parameter to filter the rows based on a filter condition (using WHERE) @include_timestamp bit = 0, -- Specify 1 for this parameter, if you want to include the TIMESTAMP/ROWVERSION column's data in the MERGE statement @debug_mode bit = 0, -- If @debug_mode is set to 1, the SQL statements constructed by this procedure will be printed for later examination @schema varchar(64) = NULL, -- Use this parameter if you are not the owner of the table @ommit_images bit = 0, -- Use this parameter to generate MERGE statement by omitting the 'image' columns @ommit_identity bit = 0, -- Use this parameter to ommit the identity columns @top int = NULL, -- Use this parameter to generate a MERGE statement only for the TOP n rows @cols_to_include varchar(8000) = NULL, -- List of columns to be included in the MERGE statement @cols_to_exclude varchar(8000) = NULL, -- List of columns to be excluded from the MERGE statement @update_only_if_changed bit = 1, -- When 1, only performs an UPDATE operation if an included column in a matched row has changed. @disable_constraints bit = 0, -- When 1, disables foreign key constraints and enables them after the MERGE statement @ommit_computed_cols bit = 0 -- When 1, computed columns will not be included in the MERGE statement ) AS BEGIN /*********************************************************************************************************** Procedure: sp_generate_merge (Version 0.9) (Adapted by Daniel Nolan for SQL Server 2008) Adapted from: sp_generate_inserts (Build 22) (Copyright © 2002 Narayana Vyas Kondreddi. All rights reserved.) Purpose: To generate a MERGE statement from existing data, which will INSERT/UPDATE/DELETE data based on matching primary key values in the source/target table. The generated statements can be executed to replicate the data in some other location. Typical use cases: * Generate statements for static data tables, store the .SQL file in source control and use it as part of your Dev/Test/Prod deployment. The generated statements are re-runnable, so you can make changes to the file and migrate those changes between environments. * Generate statements from your Production tables and then run those statements in your Dev/Test environments. Schedule this as part of a SQL Job to keep all of your environments in-sync. * Enter test data into your Dev environment, and then generate statements from the Dev tables so that you can always reproduce your test database with valid sample data. Written by: Narayana Vyas Kondreddi http://vyaskn.tripod.com Daniel Nolan http://danere.com @dan3r3 Acknowledgements (sp_generate_merge): Bill Gibson -- Blog that detailed the static data table use case; the inspiration for this proc http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ssdt/archive/2012/02/02/including-data-in-an-sql-server-database-project.aspx Bill Graziano -- Blog that provided the groundwork for MERGE statement generation http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/billg/archive/2011/02/15/generate-merge-statements-from-a-table.aspx Acknowledgements (sp_generate_inserts): Divya Kalra -- For beta testing Mark Charsley -- For reporting a problem with scripting uniqueidentifier columns with NULL values Artur Zeygman -- For helping me simplify a bit of code for handling non-dbo owned tables Joris Laperre -- For reporting a regression bug in handling text/ntext columns Tested on: SQL Server 2008 (10.50.1600) Date created: January 17th 2001 21:52 GMT Modified: May 1st 2002 19:50 GMT Last Modified: February 20th 2012 21:00 AEDT Email: vyaskn@hotmail.com NOTE: This procedure may not work with tables with a large number of columns (> 500). Results can be unpredictable with huge text columns or SQL Server 2000's sql_variant data types IMPORTANT: This procedure has not been extensively tested with international data (Extended characters or Unicode). If needed you might want to convert the datatypes of character variables in this procedure to their respective unicode counterparts like nchar and nvarchar Get Started: Ensure that your SQL client is configured to send results to text, rather than grid. This can be configured in SQL Management Studio by selecting Query... Results To... Results To Text (CTRL-T). This ensures that the generated MERGE statement it output along with the contained VALUES clause rows. After running this proc, copy the results and paste into a new query window to execute. Example 1: To generate a MERGE statement for table 'titles': EXEC sp_generate_merge 'titles' Example 2: To generate a MERGE statement for 'titlesCopy' table from 'titles' table: EXEC sp_generate_merge 'titles', 'titlesCopy' Example 3: To generate a MERGE statement for table 'titles' that will unconditionally UPDATE matching rows (ie. not perform a "has data changed?" check prior to going ahead with an UPDATE): EXEC sp_generate_merge 'titles', @update_only_if_changed = 0 Example 4: To generate a MERGE statement for 'titles' table for only those titles which contain the word 'Computer' in them: NOTE: Do not complicate the FROM or WHERE clause here. It's assumed that you are good with T-SQL if you are using this parameter EXEC sp_generate_merge 'titles', @from = "from titles where title like '%Computer%'" Example 5: To specify that you want to include TIMESTAMP column's data as well in the MERGE statement: (By default TIMESTAMP column's data is not scripted) EXEC sp_generate_merge 'titles', @include_timestamp = 1 Example 6: To print the debug information: EXEC sp_generate_merge 'titles', @debug_mode = 1 Example 7: If the table is in a different schema to the default, use @schema parameter to specify the schema name To use this option, you must have SELECT permissions on that table EXEC sp_generate_merge 'Nickstable', @schema = 'Nick' Example 8: To generate a MERGE statement for the rest of the columns excluding images EXEC sp_generate_merge 'imgtable', @ommit_images = 1 Example 9: To generate a MERGE statement excluding (omitting) IDENTITY columns: (By default IDENTITY columns are included in the MERGE statement) EXEC sp_generate_merge 'mytable', @ommit_identity = 1 Example 10: To generate a MERGE statement for the TOP 10 rows in the table: EXEC sp_generate_merge 'mytable', @top = 10 Example 11: To generate a MERGE statement with only those columns you want: EXEC sp_generate_merge 'titles', @cols_to_include = "'title','title_id','au_id'" Example 12: To generate a MERGE statement by omitting certain columns: EXEC sp_generate_merge 'titles', @cols_to_exclude = "'title','title_id','au_id'" Example 13: To avoid checking the foreign key constraints while loading data with a MERGE statement: EXEC sp_generate_merge 'titles', @disable_constraints = 1 Example 14: To exclude computed columns from the MERGE statement: EXEC sp_generate_merge 'MyTable', @ommit_computed_cols = 1 ***********************************************************************************************************/ SET NOCOUNT ON --Making sure user only uses either @cols_to_include or @cols_to_exclude IF ((@cols_to_include IS NOT NULL) AND (@cols_to_exclude IS NOT NULL)) BEGIN RAISERROR('Use either @cols_to_include or @cols_to_exclude. Do not use both the parameters at once',16,1) RETURN -1 --Failure. Reason: Both @cols_to_include and @cols_to_exclude parameters are specified END --Making sure the @cols_to_include and @cols_to_exclude parameters are receiving values in proper format IF ((@cols_to_include IS NOT NULL) AND (PATINDEX('''%''',@cols_to_include) = 0)) BEGIN RAISERROR('Invalid use of @cols_to_include property',16,1) PRINT 'Specify column names surrounded by single quotes and separated by commas' PRINT 'Eg: EXEC sp_generate_merge titles, @cols_to_include = "''title_id'',''title''"' RETURN -1 --Failure. Reason: Invalid use of @cols_to_include property END IF ((@cols_to_exclude IS NOT NULL) AND (PATINDEX('''%''',@cols_to_exclude) = 0)) BEGIN RAISERROR('Invalid use of @cols_to_exclude property',16,1) PRINT 'Specify column names surrounded by single quotes and separated by commas' PRINT 'Eg: EXEC sp_generate_merge titles, @cols_to_exclude = "''title_id'',''title''"' RETURN -1 --Failure. Reason: Invalid use of @cols_to_exclude property END --Checking to see if the database name is specified along wih the table name --Your database context should be local to the table for which you want to generate a MERGE statement --specifying the database name is not allowed IF (PARSENAME(@table_name,3)) IS NOT NULL BEGIN RAISERROR('Do not specify the database name. Be in the required database and just specify the table name.',16,1) RETURN -1 --Failure. Reason: Database name is specified along with the table name, which is not allowed END --Checking for the existence of 'user table' or 'view' --This procedure is not written to work on system tables --To script the data in system tables, just create a view on the system tables and script the view instead IF @schema IS NULL BEGIN IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_NAME = @table_name AND (TABLE_TYPE = 'BASE TABLE' OR TABLE_TYPE = 'VIEW') AND TABLE_SCHEMA = SCHEMA_NAME()) BEGIN RAISERROR('User table or view not found.',16,1) PRINT 'You may see this error if the specified table is not in your default schema (' + SCHEMA_NAME() + '). In that case use @schema parameter to specify the schema name.' PRINT 'Make sure you have SELECT permission on that table or view.' RETURN -1 --Failure. Reason: There is no user table or view with this name END END ELSE BEGIN IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT 1 FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES WHERE TABLE_NAME = @table_name AND (TABLE_TYPE = 'BASE TABLE' OR TABLE_TYPE = 'VIEW') AND TABLE_SCHEMA = @schema) BEGIN RAISERROR('User table or view not found.',16,1) PRINT 'Make sure you have SELECT permission on that table or view.' RETURN -1 --Failure. Reason: There is no user table or view with this name END END --Variable declarations DECLARE @Column_ID int, @Column_List varchar(8000), @Column_List_For_Update varchar(8000), @Column_List_For_Check varchar(8000), @Column_Name varchar(128), @Column_Name_Unquoted varchar(128), @Data_Type varchar(128), @Actual_Values varchar(8000), --This is the string that will be finally executed to generate a MERGE statement @IDN varchar(128), --Will contain the IDENTITY column's name in the table @Target_Table_For_Output varchar(776), @Source_Table_Qualified varchar(776) --Variable Initialization SET @IDN = '' SET @Column_ID = 0 SET @Column_Name = '' SET @Column_Name_Unquoted = '' SET @Column_List = '' SET @Column_List_For_Update = '' SET @Column_List_For_Check = '' SET @Actual_Values = '' --Variable Defaults IF @schema IS NULL BEGIN SET @Target_Table_For_Output = QUOTENAME(COALESCE(@target_table, @table_name)) END ELSE BEGIN SET @Target_Table_For_Output = QUOTENAME(@schema) + '.' + QUOTENAME(COALESCE(@target_table, @table_name)) END SET @Source_Table_Qualified = QUOTENAME(COALESCE(@schema,SCHEMA_NAME())) + '.' + QUOTENAME(@table_name) --To get the first column's ID SELECT @Column_ID = MIN(ORDINAL_POSITION) FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS (NOLOCK) WHERE TABLE_NAME = @table_name AND TABLE_SCHEMA = COALESCE(@schema, SCHEMA_NAME()) --Loop through all the columns of the table, to get the column names and their data types WHILE @Column_ID IS NOT NULL BEGIN SELECT @Column_Name = QUOTENAME(COLUMN_NAME), @Column_Name_Unquoted = COLUMN_NAME, @Data_Type = DATA_TYPE FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS (NOLOCK) WHERE ORDINAL_POSITION = @Column_ID AND TABLE_NAME = @table_name AND TABLE_SCHEMA = COALESCE(@schema, SCHEMA_NAME()) IF @cols_to_include IS NOT NULL --Selecting only user specified columns BEGIN IF CHARINDEX( '''' + SUBSTRING(@Column_Name,2,LEN(@Column_Name)-2) + '''',@cols_to_include) = 0 BEGIN GOTO SKIP_LOOP END END IF @cols_to_exclude IS NOT NULL --Selecting only user specified columns BEGIN IF CHARINDEX( '''' + SUBSTRING(@Column_Name,2,LEN(@Column_Name)-2) + '''',@cols_to_exclude) <> 0 BEGIN GOTO SKIP_LOOP END END --Making sure to output SET IDENTITY_INSERT ON/OFF in case the table has an IDENTITY column IF (SELECT COLUMNPROPERTY( OBJECT_ID(@Source_Table_Qualified),SUBSTRING(@Column_Name,2,LEN(@Column_Name) - 2),'IsIdentity')) = 1 BEGIN IF @ommit_identity = 0 --Determing whether to include or exclude the IDENTITY column SET @IDN = @Column_Name ELSE GOTO SKIP_LOOP END --Making sure whether to output computed columns or not IF @ommit_computed_cols = 1 BEGIN IF (SELECT COLUMNPROPERTY( OBJECT_ID(@Source_Table_Qualified),SUBSTRING(@Column_Name,2,LEN(@Column_Name) - 2),'IsComputed')) = 1 BEGIN GOTO SKIP_LOOP END END --Tables with columns of IMAGE data type are not supported for obvious reasons IF(@Data_Type in ('image')) BEGIN IF (@ommit_images = 0) BEGIN RAISERROR('Tables with image columns are not supported.',16,1) PRINT 'Use @ommit_images = 1 parameter to generate a MERGE for the rest of the columns.' RETURN -1 --Failure. Reason: There is a column with image data type END ELSE BEGIN GOTO SKIP_LOOP END END --Determining the data type of the column and depending on the data type, the VALUES part of --the MERGE statement is generated. Care is taken to handle columns with NULL values. Also --making sure, not to lose any data from flot, real, money, smallmomey, datetime columns SET @Actual_Values = @Actual_Values + CASE WHEN @Data_Type IN ('char','nchar') THEN 'COALESCE('''''''' + REPLACE(RTRIM(' + @Column_Name + '),'''''''','''''''''''')+'''''''',''NULL'')' WHEN @Data_Type IN ('varchar','nvarchar') THEN 'COALESCE('''''''' + REPLACE(' + @Column_Name + ','''''''','''''''''''')+'''''''',''NULL'')' WHEN @Data_Type IN ('datetime','smalldatetime','datetime2') THEN 'COALESCE('''''''' + RTRIM(CONVERT(char,' + @Column_Name + ',127))+'''''''',''NULL'')' WHEN @Data_Type IN ('uniqueidentifier') THEN 'COALESCE('''''''' + REPLACE(CONVERT(char(255),RTRIM(' + @Column_Name + ')),'''''''','''''''''''')+'''''''',''NULL'')' WHEN @Data_Type IN ('text') THEN 'COALESCE('''''''' + REPLACE(CONVERT(varchar(max),' + @Column_Name + '),'''''''','''''''''''')+'''''''',''NULL'')' WHEN @Data_Type IN ('ntext') THEN 'COALESCE('''''''' + REPLACE(CONVERT(nvarchar(max),' + @Column_Name + '),'''''''','''''''''''')+'''''''',''NULL'')' WHEN @Data_Type IN ('binary','varbinary') THEN 'COALESCE(RTRIM(CONVERT(char,' + 'CONVERT(int,' + @Column_Name + '))),''NULL'')' WHEN @Data_Type IN ('timestamp','rowversion') THEN CASE WHEN @include_timestamp = 0 THEN '''DEFAULT''' ELSE 'COALESCE(RTRIM(CONVERT(char,' + 'CONVERT(int,' + @Column_Name + '))),''NULL'')' END WHEN @Data_Type IN ('float','real','money','smallmoney') THEN 'COALESCE(LTRIM(RTRIM(' + 'CONVERT(char, ' + @Column_Name + ',2)' + ')),''NULL'')' ELSE 'COALESCE(LTRIM(RTRIM(' + 'CONVERT(char, ' + @Column_Name + ')' + ')),''NULL'')' END + '+' + ''',''' + ' + ' --Generating the column list for the MERGE statement SET @Column_List = @Column_List + @Column_Name + ',' --Don't update Primary Key or Identity columns IF NOT EXISTS( SELECT 1 FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS pk , INFORMATION_SCHEMA.KEY_COLUMN_USAGE c WHERE pk.TABLE_NAME = @table_name AND pk.TABLE_SCHEMA = COALESCE(@schema, SCHEMA_NAME()) AND CONSTRAINT_TYPE = 'PRIMARY KEY' AND c.TABLE_NAME = pk.TABLE_NAME AND c.TABLE_SCHEMA = pk.TABLE_SCHEMA AND c.CONSTRAINT_NAME = pk.CONSTRAINT_NAME AND c.COLUMN_NAME = @Column_Name_Unquoted ) BEGIN SET @Column_List_For_Update = @Column_List_For_Update + @Column_Name + ' = Source.' + @Column_Name + ', ' SET @Column_List_For_Check = @Column_List_For_Check + CASE @Data_Type WHEN 'text' THEN 'CAST(Target.' + @Column_Name + ' AS varchar(max)) <> CAST(Source.' + @Column_Name + ' AS varchar(max)) OR ' WHEN 'ntext' THEN 'CAST(Target.' + @Column_Name + ' AS nvarchar(max)) <> CAST(Source.' + @Column_Name + ' AS nvarchar(max)) OR ' ELSE 'Target.' + @Column_Name + ' <> Source.' + @Column_Name + ' OR ' END END SKIP_LOOP: --The label used in GOTO SELECT @Column_ID = MIN(ORDINAL_POSITION) FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMNS (NOLOCK) WHERE TABLE_NAME = @table_name AND TABLE_SCHEMA = COALESCE(@schema, SCHEMA_NAME()) AND ORDINAL_POSITION > @Column_ID END --Loop ends here! --To get rid of the extra characters that got concatenated during the last run through the loop IF LEN(@Column_List_For_Update) <> 0 BEGIN SET @Column_List_For_Update = ' ' + LEFT(@Column_List_For_Update,len(@Column_List_For_Update) - 4) END IF LEN(@Column_List_For_Check) <> 0 BEGIN SET @Column_List_For_Check = LEFT(@Column_List_For_Check,len(@Column_List_For_Check) - 3) END SET @Actual_Values = LEFT(@Actual_Values,len(@Actual_Values) - 6) SET @Column_List = LEFT(@Column_List,len(@Column_List) - 1) IF LEN(LTRIM(@Column_List)) = 0 BEGIN RAISERROR('No columns to select. There should at least be one column to generate the output',16,1) RETURN -1 --Failure. Reason: Looks like all the columns are ommitted using the @cols_to_exclude parameter END --Get the join columns ---------------------------------------------------------- DECLARE @PK_column_list VARCHAR(8000) DECLARE @PK_column_joins VARCHAR(8000) SET @PK_column_list = '' SET @PK_column_joins = '' SELECT @PK_column_list = @PK_column_list + c.COLUMN_NAME + ', ' , @PK_column_joins = @PK_column_joins + 'Target.[' + c.COLUMN_NAME + '] = Source.[' + c.COLUMN_NAME + '] AND ' FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLE_CONSTRAINTS pk , INFORMATION_SCHEMA.KEY_COLUMN_USAGE c WHERE pk.TABLE_NAME = @table_name AND pk.TABLE_SCHEMA = COALESCE(@schema, SCHEMA_NAME()) AND CONSTRAINT_TYPE = 'PRIMARY KEY' AND c.TABLE_NAME = pk.TABLE_NAME AND c.TABLE_SCHEMA = pk.TABLE_SCHEMA AND c.CONSTRAINT_NAME = pk.CONSTRAINT_NAME SET @PK_column_list = LEFT(@PK_column_list, LEN(@PK_column_list) -1) SET @PK_column_joins = LEFT(@PK_column_joins, LEN(@PK_column_joins) -4) --Forming the final string that will be executed, to output the a MERGE statement SET @Actual_Values = 'SELECT ' + CASE WHEN @top IS NULL OR @top < 0 THEN '' ELSE ' TOP ' + LTRIM(STR(@top)) + ' ' END + '''' + ' '' + CASE WHEN ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY ' + @PK_column_list + ') = 1 THEN '' '' ELSE '','' END + ''(''+ ' + @Actual_Values + '+'')''' + ' ' + COALESCE(@from,' FROM ' + @Source_Table_Qualified + ' (NOLOCK)') --Determining whether to ouput any debug information IF @debug_mode =1 BEGIN PRINT '/*****START OF DEBUG INFORMATION*****' PRINT '' PRINT 'The primary key column list:' PRINT @PK_column_list PRINT '' PRINT 'The INSERT column list:' PRINT @Column_List PRINT '' PRINT 'The UPDATE column list:' PRINT @Column_List_For_Update PRINT '' PRINT 'The SELECT statement executed to generate the MERGE:' PRINT @Actual_Values PRINT '' PRINT '*****END OF DEBUG INFORMATION*****/' PRINT '' END PRINT '--MERGE generated by ''sp_generate_merge'' stored procedure, Version 0.9' PRINT '--Originally by Vyas (http://vyaskn.tripod.com): sp_generate_inserts (build 22)' PRINT '--Adapted for SQL Server 2008 by Daniel Nolan (http://danere.com)' PRINT '' PRINT 'SET NOCOUNT ON' PRINT '' --Determining whether to print IDENTITY_INSERT or not IF (LEN(@IDN) <> 0) BEGIN PRINT 'SET IDENTITY_INSERT ' + @Target_Table_For_Output + ' ON' PRINT '' END --Temporarily disable constraints on the target table IF @disable_constraints = 1 AND (OBJECT_ID(@Source_Table_Qualified, 'U') IS NOT NULL) BEGIN PRINT 'ALTER TABLE ' + @Target_Table_For_Output + ' NOCHECK CONSTRAINT ALL' --Code to disable constraints temporarily END --Output the start of the MERGE statement, qualifying with the schema name only if the caller explicitly specified it PRINT 'MERGE INTO ' + @Target_Table_For_Output + ' AS Target' PRINT 'USING (VALUES' --All the hard work pays off here!!! You'll get your MERGE statement, when the next line executes! EXEC (@Actual_Values) --Output the columns to correspond with each of the values above-------------------- PRINT ') AS Source (' + @Column_List + ')' --Output the join columns ---------------------------------------------------------- PRINT 'ON (' + @PK_column_joins + ')' --When matched, perform an UPDATE on any metadata columns only (ie. not on PK)------ IF LEN(@Column_List_For_Update) <> 0 BEGIN PRINT 'WHEN MATCHED ' + CASE WHEN @update_only_if_changed = 1 THEN 'AND (' + @Column_List_For_Check + ') ' ELSE '' END + 'THEN' PRINT ' UPDATE SET' PRINT @Column_List_For_Update END --When NOT matched by target, perform an INSERT------------------------------------ PRINT 'WHEN NOT MATCHED BY TARGET THEN'; PRINT ' INSERT(' + @Column_List + ')' PRINT ' VALUES(' + REPLACE(@Column_List, '[', 'Source.[') + ')' --When NOT matched by source, DELETE the row PRINT 'WHEN NOT MATCHED BY SOURCE THEN ' PRINT ' DELETE;' PRINT '' PRINT 'GO' --Display the number of affected rows to the user, or report if an error occurred--- PRINT 'DECLARE @mergeError int' PRINT ' , @mergeCount int' PRINT 'SELECT @mergeError = @@ERROR, @mergeCount = @@ROWCOUNT' PRINT 'IF @mergeError != 0' PRINT ' BEGIN' PRINT ' PRINT ''ERROR OCCURRED IN MERGE FOR ' + @Target_Table_For_Output + '. Rows affected: '' + CAST(@mergeCount AS VARCHAR(100)); -- SQL should always return zero rows affected'; PRINT ' END' PRINT 'ELSE' PRINT ' BEGIN' PRINT ' PRINT ''' + @Target_Table_For_Output + ' rows affected by MERGE: '' + CAST(@mergeCount AS VARCHAR(100));'; PRINT ' END' PRINT 'GO' PRINT '' --Re-enable the previously disabled constraints------------------------------------- IF @disable_constraints = 1 AND (OBJECT_ID(@Source_Table_Qualified, 'U') IS NOT NULL) BEGIN PRINT 'ALTER TABLE ' + @Target_Table_For_Output + ' CHECK CONSTRAINT ALL' --Code to enable the previously disabled constraints PRINT 'GO' END --Switch-off identity inserting------------------------------------------------------ IF (LEN(@IDN) <> 0) BEGIN PRINT 'SET IDENTITY_INSERT ' + @Target_Table_For_Output + ' OFF' PRINT 'GO' END PRINT 'SET NOCOUNT OFF' PRINT 'GO' PRINT '' PRINT '' SET NOCOUNT OFF RETURN 0 --Success. We are done! END GO PRINT 'Created the procedure' GO --Mark the proc as a system object to allow it to be called transparently from other databases EXEC sp_MS_marksystemobject sp_generate_merge GO PRINT 'Granting EXECUTE permission on sp_generate_merge to all users' GRANT EXEC ON sp_generate_merge TO public SET NOCOUNT OFF GO PRINT 'Done'