I appreciate your reply.  We have plenty of new apps. in the works and a few "hot out of the oven" so you could be smelling a few different things. 

"significantly more functionality" is a generalism - more functionality than what XP_CRYPT?  What is the additional functionality?

I have to say I'm not a huge fan of support fees.  If it...

by next week we hope to eliminate linked servers for structure comparison (quickly followed by removing them for data comparison).  Most problems with linked servers have been removed but for...

thx for review of our product.  We'll work on getting those scores up to all 5's soon!  Only correction is price is currently $499 not $599. 

1.11 was just released...

thx for reply.  It will be interesting to see what Quest is up to - but this version is just released a short time ago so we'll see

thx Andy,  yes - data is another area of opportunity - deleting dupes, orphaned children etc.

we are going through all of these posts to make a master list - there are some great ideas in here!  keep them coming!

thx!

thx much - I'll kick out big discount coupons and maybe some free software to anybody who posts good info. on this forum.  The more ideas we get the better version...

thx much for reply.

we verified that it did return all servers regardless of sql server group and also found some new APIs to do this without SQLDMO

here are some notes...

great article

to see another like-minded author read the developer articles on http://www.dexterity.com by Steve Pavlina - one of the most respected authors in shareware industry.

i tell my developers...

sqldmo is ok to start out with but performance is terrible - we use it for ancilliary tasks only now - but even for this it is no good. ...

"Yes, that strange perception of these flags by SQLDMO forces us to use always both flags together or combined flag SQLDMOScript_Permissions."

one more reason why we're ripping SQLDMO out of our...

it get's better ....

"The result of testing these flags is strange. So, Script-method of Table-object gives identical results with separated SQLDMOScript_ObjectPermissions

and SQLDMOScript_DatabasePermissions - the true sets of rights. But Script-method...

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