http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Articles tagged Programming, SQL Server 7, 2000, SQL-DMO posted on SQLServerCentral.comen-us360sjones@sqlservercentral.com (Steve Jones)Auditing SQL Server, or any system, is not an easy task and with new regulations like Sarbanes-Oxley, it is becoming a full time job in some environments. Chad Miller brings us a way that he developed with Excel and some scripting to automate some of the security information for a large installation of SQL Servers. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/usesqldmoandexceltoquicklycreatereportsforauditors/2064/2005/10/04http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/usesqldmoandexceltoquicklycreatereportsforauditors/2064/Do you know the difference between a login and a user? What's the best way to add them; Enterprise Manager, T-SQL, or SQL-DMO? In this beginner level article Andy demonstrates how to use all three methods to add logins and users and offers his view of which is the best technique. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/loginsusersandrolesgettingstarted/514/2005/09/30http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/loginsusersandrolesgettingstarted/514/We saw a note from Chad about a tool he wrote in the forums and asked him to write up some notes. Not only did we get notes, we got the source code! See what a DBA can do with some DMO. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/dumpsqlpermissions/1314/2004/03/17http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/dumpsqlpermissions/1314/The second article in a 3 part series that presents another VBScript class file that creates a class that can be used to display the backup information from a SQL server's maintanence plans. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQL-DMO/sqlbackups2/785/2003/08/28http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQL-DMO/sqlbackups2/785/Do you know the difference between a login and a user? What's the best way to add them; Enterprise Manager, T-SQL, or SQL-DMO? In this beginner level article Andy demonstrates how to use all three methods to add logins and users and offers his view of which is the best technique. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/loginsusersandrolesgettingstarted/514/2005/09/30http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/loginsusersandrolesgettingstarted/514/How many jobs do you have? 10? 100? 1000? Andy makes the point that what works to manage for a small number of jobs doesn't work when that number doubles or triples (well, unless you only had 1 job to start with!). In part one of two, this article looks at ideas for using categories and naming conventions to get things under control. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/managingjobspart1/906/2003/01/31http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/managingjobspart1/906/Andy takes a look at the new book on DMO and likes what he sees - "great book for beginner and intermediate DMO users!". We've been supporters of DMO for a while and we're glad to see a new book on the subject. Read the review, add your comments, buy the book! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/reviewofrealworldsqldmo/842/2002/11/19http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/reviewofrealworldsqldmo/842/Following up on a question posted in our discussion area, Andy demonstrates how to backup/restore a database using DMO, how to get the list of files to be restored, and how to do a restore with no recovery. Lots of sample code! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/restoringusingdmogettingfilelistandnorecovery/823/2002/10/15http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/restoringusingdmogettingfilelistandnorecovery/823/Following up on a question posted in our discussion area, Andy looks at how to use DMO to add and remove linked servers. Along the way he points out a couple 'gotchas' and throws in a cool tip about how to save a little time when you experiment with DMO. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/addinglinkedserversusingsqldmo/801/2002/09/19http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/addinglinkedserversusingsqldmo/801/A VBscript class is created that can be used to query the maintenance plans on an SQL server to determine when a backup has occurred. This class can be used with others to create a scripted method for monitoring backups. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQL-DMO/sqlbackups1/783/2002/08/22http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/SQL-DMO/sqlbackups1/783/One of our readers needed some help with altering a table with DMO, so Andy has a code sample and some comments in general about how to add objects using DMO. It's good code and a very quick introduction to how objects work. Worth reading! http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/addingacolumnusingsql_dmo/609/2002/02/14http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/addingacolumnusingsql_dmo/609/This week Andy takes a look at a new product from Red-Gate that gives you even more options than you get with their SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare tools - now you can build your own. Add the features you always wanted. Build automated processes instead of using the GUI. It's an interesting product - read the review and then maybe even enter the contest to win a free copy. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/reviewofsqlcomparisonandsynchronizationtoolkit/580/2002/01/16http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/reviewofsqlcomparisonandsynchronizationtoolkit/580/Ever have a large batch of scripts you need to run? It takes a while if you have to open each one in Query Analyzer and execute it. One of our readers proposed an alternative - take a look the small app Andy Warren wrote to make doing this task a breeze. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/scriptrunner/292/2001/06/14http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Administering/scriptrunner/292/