Tom.Thomson (2/12/2010)
A very useful question. I've learned something new. Policy-based management begins to look more useful.But I guess MS must have changed their mind at some point but forgot to change BOL. The very first sentence in the Administering Servers by Using Policy-Based Management section (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb510667.aspx) is
Policy-Based Management is a system for managing one or more instances of SQL Server 2008.
- and that was last updated as recently as November 2009.
Great question, I am glad it came up. I just taught an upgrade class from 2005 to 2008 and BOL had also led me to believe that PBM was for 2008 only. I should have looked a little deeper I guess 😀
At least I have another selling point for my customers who are considering upgrading!
Keep 'em coming!
Peter Trast
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