Stairway to Server Management Objects (SMO)

This stairway series tries to help the reader become comfortable with server management objects (SMO). These objects are a programmatic way of accessing SQL Server functions and objects through an API from .NET. This series will help you learn the basics with practical applications for your work.

• Stairway to Server Management Objects (SMO) Level 1: Concepts and Basics

  Learn how to get started working with SMO and PowerShell.

• Stairway to Server Management Objects (SMO) Level 2: Connections and Creating Server Inventories

  Learn how to get started working with SMO and PowerShell.

• Stairway to Server Management Objects (SMO) Level 3: The Database Class

  Learn how to get started working with SMO and PowerShell.

• Stairway to Server Management Objects (SMO) Level 4: Scripting and Copying Small Databases

  In the fourth level of this series, we will examine how you can use the scripting classes to create the code to manage your SQL Server instances and databases.

• Stairway to Server Management Objects (SMO) Level 5: Moving to the SQLServer Module

  In this level you will learn about the SQLServer PowerShell module that ships with modern versions of SSMS.