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FIX: Generating Scripts to Multiple Files May Yield Error 20524

Article ID: 247107

Article Last Modified on 3/14/2006

APPLIES TO

Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q247107

BUG #: 54812 (SQLBUG_70)

SYMPTOMS

Enterprise Manager may return the SQL Distributed Management Objects (DMO) error 20524 when generating database scripts:

Error 20524:[SQL-DMO] ScriptMode specified as ToFileOnly, but no filename specified -- recheck parameters.

This behavior has been observed when choosing these scripting options:

Script database users and database roles.
Create one file per object.

WORKAROUND

Generate the entire script to a single file.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in SQL Server 7.0. This problem has been corrected in U.S. Service Pack 2 for Microsoft SQL Server 7.0. For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

254561 INF: How to Obtain Service Pack 2 for Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 and Microsoft Data Engine (MSDE) 1.0

For more information, contact your primary support provider.

Additional query words: SSEM SEM Enterprise Manager DMO script generate

Keywords: kbbug kbfix KB247107

Microsoft KB Archive/247107

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