This is a first version of a custom solution for SQL Server log shipping using VB.NET 2005 and .NET Framework v.2.0. The script has to run on a server where you have SQL Server 2005 (or at least tools) installed because it uses new SMO. For some functions of the script you will have to […]
2007-06-22 (first published: 2006-06-05)
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