SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action

8.5. Advanced policy-based management

The policies we've looked at so far have all been based on static server properties, such as checking the value of various surface area configuration properties to determine whether xp_cmdshell is enabled. In this section, we'll look at ways of enabling more advanced, or dynamic, policy checks. We'll also cover the benefits of combining policy-based management with PowerShell.

8.5.1. ExecuteWql() and ExecuteSql()

Earlier in the chapter we covered some of the policies included with SQL Server 2008 that can be imported for evaluation. One of these policies is used to detect the presence of I/O delay messages in the Windows Event Log. Clearly, this is a very different type of policy from those we've covered ...