Stairway to Server Management Objects (SMO) Level 1: Concepts and Basics
Learn how to get started working with SMO and PowerShell.
2024-01-20 (first published: 2016-05-11)
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Laerte Junior
Stairway to Server Management Objects (SMO) Level 2: Connections and Creating Server Inventories
Learn how to get started working with SMO and PowerShell.
2024-01-20 (first published: 2016-07-13)
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Stairway to Server Management Objects (SMO) Level 3: The Database Class
Learn how to get started working with SMO and PowerShell.
2024-01-20 (first published: 2017-02-01)
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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.
2024-01-20 (first published: 2023-12-13)
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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.
2024-01-20 (first published: 2024-01-17)
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