Wow, it's been a crazy month! Two weeks of Tech Ed in Orlando, where I spent time helping people with questions on SQL Server in the Database Platform area and presented two sessions on SMO and PowerShell (one with my friend Peter Ward from Australia). Then, my last week as a DBA at Advanstar, followed by my first week as a Trainer for ...

Last week I presented a session on Using SMO to Manage SQL Server at SQL Connections in Orlando, Florida. This was the third major conference I've presented this session, and each time I do this session I change more demos from VB.Net to PowerShell. This time it was the demo to create a new database. The big thing about my demos is that I want ...

In the February CTP of SQL Server 2008 a new feature has appeared in SQL Server Management Studio. You now have the ability to right-click on an object in the Object Explorer window and open up a PowerShell window. In this window you can navigate the database structures much like you can a disk file subsystem, or like you can navigate the ...

Actually, let's use PowerShell and SMO to create an Agent job which will run a PowerShell script. (Or is that a circular reference?) I've created a number of PowerShell scripts which automate database management processes, and I wanted to be able to run them from an Agent job. The trick, of course, is to be able to get to the PowerShell ...

While doing some research on SMO I found a couple of very handy features of the WMI accessibility features of SMO. I'm playing with PowerShell because it's easy to browse the SMO objects in that environment, but here are a couple of tips I found useful. We need to load the SMO assembly into PowerShell - here's the ...

In browsing through the SQL Server 2008 SMO Object Library I noticed there are a couple of additional DLL's. For example, the SQL Server WMI Management objects, formerly in Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo.dll, are now in Microsoft.SqlServer.SqlWmiManagement.dll. There's also a new one called Microsoft.SqlServer.SmoExtended.dll. I took a look in there ...

Last December I blogged about a bug in the MailServer object, in that they left out a New() method for creating a MailServer object. The full description of the error and workaround is here and the Connect item I filed on the problem is here.. In browsing through the SMO Object Library for SQL Server 2008 I see they still have not included a ...

Thanks to Allen White and his talk at PASS, I have been inspired in my plight to create a complete build script of the database that I am in charge of for a dev project at work.  So I wanted to start by scripting the tables that exist in my database.  I was going to have it be configurable but that is later on.  My end product will ...