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SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action
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SQL Server 2008 Administration in Action

by Rodney C. Colledge
August 2009
Intermediate to advanced
464 pages
13h 59m
English
Manning Publications
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8.4. Enterprise policy management

In opening this chapter, we discussed the challenges faced by a DBA in maintaining consistent best practice configuration across many SQL Server instances. We've looked at the new policy-based management feature and how it can be used to create, import, and evaluate policies.

Although the new feature is unquestionably useful, there still remains a significant challenge in being able to deal with instances running into the hundreds or thousands, particularly when the instances are spread across a number of categories such as production, test, and development, each of which may have individual configuration requirements.

What's really needed is a way of defining a template server for each environment, and then ...

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