Skip to Content
Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2008 All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies®
book

Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2008 All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies®

by Robert D. Schneider, Darril Gibson
September 2008
Beginner to intermediate
768 pages
17h 40m
English
For Dummies
Content preview from Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2008 All-In-One Desk Reference For Dummies®

IV.7.2. Automating Administration with SQL Server Management Objects

SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) can be used to provide management of SQL Server with applications outside of SQL Server. In other words, they're designed to manage and access SQL Server beyond the capabilities of SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).

SMO objects are built in to the Microsoft .NET Framework. Different name-spaces provide different capabilities.

In past versions of SQL Server, SQL Distributed Management Objects (SQL-DMO) were used to provide some of the functionality of SMO. SQL-DMO used a COM object model and was deprecated in SQL Server 2005. SMO is a .NET assembly and supersedes SQL-DMO in SQL Server 2008.

Some of the common database administration tasks that SMO objects can be used to do include

  • Backups and restores: Many third-party tools use SQL Server Management Objects to simplify common backup and restore tasks.

  • Index maintenance: In addition to traditional index maintenance, you can also manage index table partitioning. With partitioning you can optimize the performance of the database by dividing data from a large index or table so that the data is stored on more than one physical disk.

  • Integrity checks: The Database Base Console Command (DBCC) includes many commands, such as CHECKDB, that can be periodically executed against a database to ensure the logical and physical integrity of ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Step by Step

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Step by Step

Mike Hotek
Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Bible

Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008 Bible

Paul Nielsen, Mike White, Uttam Parui

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780470179543Purchase book