Powershell + SMO Error Handling Tips
Allen White posted a helpful post on SMO error handling with Powershell. Actually the same concept equally applies to SMO coded in any other .NET language. SMO uses an error object’s InnerException...
View ArticlePowershell SQL Server Backup/Restore
I posted a script on Poshcode for doing backups and restores of SQL Server databases using SMO. The script is adapted from SQL Server Powershell Extensions functions of the same name. SMO 9.0 (2005)...
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Hello SMO (F#) World!
Reading The F# Survival Guide has motivated me to write my version of an F# “Hello World!” utility. What I mean by that is to write something simple that I’ve written in other programming languages as...
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The T-SQL Hammer
The over-reliance on a familiar tool is best described with the quote, “if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like nail” and for database professionals this means using or sometimes misusing...
View ArticleUsing SMO Transfer Class to Script Database Objects
I’ve spent some time trying to get the SMO Transfer class to bend to my will. I want to script out all objects of a certain type or a select list of objects. As we will see a moment this was a bit a of...
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