How to script indexes, keys, foreign keys in SQL Server

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Hi,

I would like to get the details of all indexes, keys, and foreign keys from a database in SQL Server (2008). How do I do this?

I plan to use this to synchronize those properties across a couple of somewhat similar databases.

I can use SQL Server Management Studio, but I cannot do a full backup of a database because of restrictions set by the web hoster.

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Secondary question that you do not need to answer:

Why can't there be something similar to the database schema in Mysql that simply lists all of the database structure in text SQL script format?

Thanks,

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