Richard Hundhausen is talking about SQL Management Objects (SMO). Started on a high note. Good jokes. Got the audience interested.
High points:
- You can capture your clicks, and turn them into a script that can be edited.
- SMO is backward compatible with SQL Server 2000 and 7.0!
- Over 500 classes in SMO, with over 19,000 methods, properties, constructors, fields and events
- Can use What-If to see what would happen if you ran something. You get the SQL but don't HAVE to get the results of running it.