Hello,

SmO was awfully slow to create databases with its tables,stored procedures,views and so on with SMO 2005 SP2 . But i discovered with pleasure that SMO 2008 SP1 is about 5 times quicker than SMO 2005 SP2, but 50% slower than the execution of the script generated by SMO 2008.

It is true that SMO is not interesting to execute "current" queries as these ones used in an application ( you have less options than with SqlCommand ). The ServerConnection.ExecuteWithResults needs to store the statements in a StringCollection ( even for an unique statement ) and is able only to return a DataSet array and not a DataTable. It is why i am using a mix between SMO and SqlClient classes when i have to execute queries especially versus DMV.

Another reproach against SMO : for each new version of SQL Server, the namespaces are changing names, classes are changing their namespaces, and now i am using the Denali Documentation to try to understand what is the use of a property or method, Denali SMO documentation is more complete, while the SMO 2005 or 2008 documentation is to be on the fringe of nought. And why to document protected method/property in a sealed class ? Useless as it is nearly impossible to derivate from a SMO class.

I am fond of SMO but the documentation is too poor to incite DBA/developers to manage servers or databases

Have a nice day