http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Articles tagged Miscellaneous, 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/Ryan demonstrates how he arrived at a solution that allows you to create scripts from a stored procedure using SQL-DMO. If you get interested in DMO, we've got quite a bit of additional content here on the site to help you get going! Ryan is a new author here on the site, please take a minute to read his article, add a comment, maybe just say hello. http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/creatingascriptfromastoredprocedure/973/2003/05/02http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Miscellaneous/creatingascriptfromastoredprocedure/973/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/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/