Sql-server – Restore All Databases Script

You could set up a simple job to backup the database to a single location and then restore it. It would look something like this

--First we back up the DB        
BACKUP DATABASE [ABC] TO  DISK = N'C:\temp\ABC.bak' WITH NOFORMAT, NOINIT,
        NAME = N'ABC-Full Database Backup', SKIP, NOREWIND, NOUNLOAD,  STATS = 10
        GO
--Then we restore the DB
        RESTORE DATABASE [ABC_test] FROM  DISK = N'C:\temp\ABC.bak' WITH  FILE = 1,  MOVE N'ABC' TO N'C:\DBFiles\ABC_test.mdf',  
        MOVE N'ABC_log' TO N'C:\DBFiles\ABC_test_log.ldf',  NOUNLOAD,  REPLACE,  STATS = 10
        GO

You might want to delete the file before you back it up. You could do this with powershell (my recommendation), xp_delete_file (undocumented SP), or xp_cmdshell (not sure if it is enabled on your system or not)

I would personally just do a backup for each database, and then attach them to the new server. Just remember to use

EXEC sp_change_users_login 'Auto_Fix', 'username'

for fixing user accounts.

The Wizard approach sounds doable.

If you need another approach for scripting DDL, the scptxfr.exe tool that comes with earlier versions of SQL Server still works with 2008. The following will connect to a local SQL Server instance and create a DDL script for my_database:

scptxfr /s .\SQLExpress /d my_database /I /f database_script.sql /O /H

Without programming, it is going to be difficult to get all the data out in scripts.