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I bet with SMO you can do this no problem: <ul> <li>read the structure of your "old" table into in-memory variables</li> <li>use this structure info to create the new table</li> </ul> I quickly found a few interesting articles that show at least part of the solution: <ul> <li><a href="http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SMO/scriptdatabaseobjectswithsmo/2342/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SMO/scriptdatabaseobjectswithsmo/2342/</a></li> </ul> So basically it would boil down to something like this: <pre><code>Server localServer = new Server("(local)"); Database testDB = localServer.Databases["test"]; Table myTable = testDB.Tables["TestFiles"]; myTable.Refresh(); Table newTable = new Table(testDB, "MyNewTableName"); foreach(Column col in myTable.Columns) { Column newColumn = new Column(newTable, col.Name); newColumn.DataType = col.DataType; newColumn.Default = col.Default; newColumn.Identity = col.Identity; newColumn.IdentityIncrement = col.IdentityIncrement; newColumn.IdentitySeed = col.IdentitySeed; newColumn.Nullable = col.Nullable; newTable.Columns.Add(newColumn); } newTable.Create(); </code></pre> Of course, there are more properties on the "Column" which you might want to copy over, plus you might also want to copy indices, constraints etc. - extra work. I'm stumped that there isn't an easier way to duplicate a "Column" object to a new one (something like a .Clone() method) to ease this - maybe it's not a top-priority scenario, I don't know.... Hope this helps! Marc
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1. POHow to programmatically copy a table in SQL Server, without the data?
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1. COWe could always add a clone extension method :)
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2. CO@SkippyFire: sure - I was just stumped that it's not in there already.
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