how to generate the creation script for partition function and partition schema?

Question

I have a script to generate the create table script. You can see it on my answer to this question.

However, now I need to script my partition functions and partition schemes

On this question here, see the answer has examples on how to add a partition to a table and how to remove a partition from a table, and I would like to have a look at the scripts at any stage.

I have found this link: how to find partition function text applied to a table

how to generate the scripts for create partition function and partition schema?

I was working on a script to generate the create partition function as you can see below, but it only works for my own PF_year partition function because it was tricky to get over the fact that sys.partition_range_values has a sql_variant data type as value.

when I used a case I got the following error:

Msg 206, Level 16, State 2, Line 35

Operand type clash: int is incompatible with date

Then in his great answer Dan Guzman, showed us SQL_VARIANT_PROPERTY some wonderful thing that I was not aware of, now I am a new DBA and person.

   SET TRANSACTION ISOLATION LEVEL READ UNCOMMITTED
    SELECT
    RADHE = 'CREATE PARTITION FUNCTION' + space(1) + quotename(spf.name) + 
'(' +  
    COALESCE(baset.name,'data type not found') +   ')' + CHAR(13) + 
    'AS RANGE ' + CASE WHEN CAST(spf.boundary_value_on_right AS int) = 1 
THEN 'RIGHT ' ELSE 'LEFT ' END  + CHAR(13) +
    'FOR VALUES (' +
    (SELECT STUFF(
    (SELECT
    [text()] = N',''' + CAST(
                      CASE st.system_type_id 
                       WHEN 40 THEN CONVERT (date, sprv.value,126) 
                       --WHEN 56 THEN CONVERT (int,  sprv.value)
                       --ELSE CONVERT (int,  sprv.value)
                      END 
                      AS NVARCHAR) + ''''
    FROM sys.partition_range_values sprv 
    WHERE sprv.function_id=spf.function_id
    order by sprv.boundary_id
     FOR XML PATH('') ), 1, 1,N'')+ N');')

    ,st.system_type_id
    ,spf.name AS [Name],
    spf.function_id AS [ID],
    CAST(spf.boundary_value_on_right AS int) AS [RangeType],
    spf.create_date AS [CreateDate],
    spf.fanout AS [NumberOfPartitions]
    FROM
    sys.partition_functions AS spf

    INNER JOIN sys.partition_parameters AS spp 
            ON spp.function_id=spf.function_id

    INNER JOIN sys.types AS st 
            ON st.system_type_id = st.user_type_id 
           and spp.system_type_id = st.system_type_id

    LEFT OUTER JOIN sys.types AS baset 
                  ON (     baset.user_type_id = spp.system_type_id 
                       and baset.user_type_id = baset.system_type_id) 

                  or (     (baset.system_type_id = spp.system_type_id) 
                       and (baset.user_type_id = spp.user_type_id) 
                       and (baset.is_user_defined = 0) 
                       and (baset.is_assembly_type = 1))
    WHERE spf.name = 'PF_YEAR';

Answer 1

I see from your comment on Terry C's answer that you are looking for a T-SQL solution to script partition functions and schemes. Although I think SMO or SSDT (via SSMS, Powershell, Visual Studio) is the right tool for scripting DDL, it is possible accomplish via some ugly T-SQL. Below are sample scripts for this particular task.

SELECT
      N'CREATE PARTITION FUNCTION ' 
    + QUOTENAME(pf.name)
    + N'(' + t.name  + N')'
    + N' AS RANGE ' 
    + CASE WHEN pf.boundary_value_on_right = 1 THEN N'RIGHT' ELSE N'LEFT' END
    + ' FOR VALUES('
    +
    (SELECT
        STUFF((SELECT
            N','
            + CASE
                  WHEN SQL_VARIANT_PROPERTY(r.value, 'BaseType') IN(N'char', N'varchar') 
                    THEN QUOTENAME(CAST(r.value AS nvarchar(4000)), '''')
                  WHEN SQL_VARIANT_PROPERTY(r.value, 'BaseType') IN(N'nchar', N'nvarchar') 
                    THEN N'N' + QUOTENAME(CAST(r.value AS nvarchar(4000)), '''')
                  WHEN SQL_VARIANT_PROPERTY(r.value, 'BaseType') = N'date' 
                    THEN QUOTENAME(FORMAT(CAST(r.value AS date), 'yyyy-MM-dd'),'''')
                  WHEN SQL_VARIANT_PROPERTY(r.value, 'BaseType') = N'datetime' 
                    THEN QUOTENAME(FORMAT(CAST(r.value AS datetime), 'yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss'),'''')
                  WHEN SQL_VARIANT_PROPERTY(r.value, 'BaseType') IN(N'datetime', N'smalldatetime') 
                    THEN QUOTENAME(FORMAT(CAST(r.value AS datetime), 'yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.fff'),'''')
                  WHEN SQL_VARIANT_PROPERTY(r.value, 'BaseType') = N'datetime2' 
                    THEN QUOTENAME(FORMAT(CAST(r.value AS datetime2), 'yyyy-MM-ddTHH:mm:ss.fffffff'),'''')
                  WHEN SQL_VARIANT_PROPERTY(r.value, 'BaseType') = N'datetimeoffset' 
                    THEN QUOTENAME(FORMAT(CAST(r.value AS datetimeoffset), 'yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.fffffff K'),'''')
                  WHEN SQL_VARIANT_PROPERTY(r.value, 'BaseType') = N'time' 
                    THEN QUOTENAME(FORMAT(CAST(r.value AS time), 'hh\:mm\:ss\.fffffff'),'''') --'HH\:mm\:ss\.fffffff'
                  WHEN SQL_VARIANT_PROPERTY(r.value, 'BaseType') = N'uniqueidentifier' 
                    THEN QUOTENAME(CAST(r.value AS nvarchar(4000)), '''')
                  WHEN SQL_VARIANT_PROPERTY(r.value, 'BaseType') IN (N'binary', N'varbinary') 
                    THEN CONVERT(nvarchar(4000), r.value, 1)
                  ELSE CAST(r.value AS nvarchar(4000))
              END
    FROM sys.partition_range_values AS r
    WHERE pf.[function_id] = r.[function_id]
    FOR XML PATH(''), TYPE).value('.', 'nvarchar(MAX)'),1,1,N'')
    )
    + N');'
FROM sys.partition_functions pf
JOIN sys.partition_parameters AS pp ON
    pp.function_id = pf.function_id
JOIN sys.types AS t ON
    t.system_type_id = pp.system_type_id
    AND t.user_type_id = pp.user_type_id
WHERE pf.name = N'PF_Year';

SELECT
      N'CREATE PARTITION SCHEME ' + QUOTENAME(ps.name)
    + N' AS PARTITION ' + QUOTENAME(pf.name)
    + N' TO ('
    +
    (SELECT
        STUFF((SELECT
            N',' + QUOTENAME(fg.name)
    FROM sys.data_spaces ds
    JOIN sys.destination_data_spaces AS dds ON dds.partition_scheme_id = ps.data_space_id
    JOIN sys.filegroups AS fg ON fg.data_space_id = dds.data_space_id
    WHERE ps.data_space_id = ds.data_space_id
    ORDER BY dds.destination_id
    FOR XML PATH(''), TYPE).value('.', 'nvarchar(MAX)'),1,1,N'')
    )
    + N');'
FROM sys.partition_schemes AS ps
JOIN sys.partition_functions AS pf ON pf.function_id = ps.function_id
WHERE ps.name = N'PSC_Year';

Answer 2

please try these steps:

1. Using SSMS - Check your Scripting Options.
   Go to Tools/Options menu. Navigate to 'SQL Server Object Explorer' / 'Scripting' Check 'Script Partition Schemes' is set to True. (False appears to be default) Also worth checking setting for 'Script file groups'

2. In Object Explorer - right click your database name, and then select Tasks / 'Generate Scripts' for all database objects. You should see partition schemes early in the scripted text.