Sometimes you become the accidental DBA, or you are the DBA by choice. Either way, you can choose to spend time working in SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) to look at things such as backups or the ...

PowerShell gives DBAs a reason to begin using SMO for real, so now we'll find out about all the gory details I was talking to a good friend at Microsoft last week, telling him about the problems I’ve ...

Throughout this series of posts there have been a number of examples of how to use the SQL Server PowerShell provider. However, these were always in context with a specific task (i.e. automating ...

The mssql extension for Visual Studio Code, used to support SQL Server connections and T-SQL editing, has been updated with IntelliCode functionality and a new Object Explorer, among other new ...

The xref:Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Agent.JobServer object has three collections of jobs, alerts and operators. The xref:Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Agent.OperatorCollection object ...

This page provides information on how to install SMO for use by applications and the system requirements to use SMO. Beginning with [!INCLUDEssNoVersion] 2017 SMO is distributed as the ...

Although spanking new in Katmai, Policy-Based Management already seems mature. The inclusion of PowerShell will reinvent the way DBAs manage their environments by taking complicated cursors out of ...

Microsoft's SQL Server toolbox is a morass of acronyms, from SMO to SSMS to SOS, and differentiating one from the other can be a challenge. I recently caught up with Vicky Harp, lead program manager ...