[dba-SQLServer] New SQL Server Registration problem

Steve Erbach erbachs at gmail.com
Sat Apr 9 12:18:45 CDT 2005


Arthur,

Hey! That TOAD looks all right! Thanks for the tip!

Steve Erbach

On Apr 9, 2005 11:28 AM, Arthur Fuller <artful at rogers.com> wrote:
> If you want to explore the DMO library, you can write pretty much
> anything you want. A while back I was commissioned by a colleague to
> write a module that would do backups and restores to SQL Server. It was
> a kind of weird situation in which CDs were mailed to clients regularly,
> but the client might want to install a previous CD's database (i.e. last
> year's, etc.) to re-run a report.
> 
> After mucking around in the DMO library for a while, I found it almost
> absurdly easy to write. Given the number of lines of code in the app, my
> colleague ended up paying me at the rate of about $200 a line. Actually
> all the time went into investigating how to use DMO, but once I had a
> handle on it, the rest was breathtakingly simple.
> 
> I also recommend TOAD. See www.toadsoft.com/downld.html. There's a free
> version you can try out, as well as a commercial version with more
> features. There are versions available for MS-SQL, Oracle and MySQL.



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