September 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1704 pages
111h 8m
English
SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) are a very useful tool to advanced users and developers when dealing with the automation of SQL Server 2005 and 2008. A lot of the features within SQL Server (core engine, agent, mail, and so on) are packaged into easy-to-access .NET libraries that can be accessed from PowerShell.
Most of the functionality provided by the new PowerShell support in SQL 2008 is based on SMO.
As for SQL Server 2005, PowerShell can still be used to administer this version via SMO. The only difference is that the relevant assemblies must be loaded manually.
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