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I have a strange situation where i have added a reference to Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Sdk.Sfc and a call to SmoApplication.EnumAvailableSqlServers returns a DataTable of available servers, when it is run on my development machine. When I deploy to my colleague's machine, the DataTable is returned empty. Strangely, the following Dim server As New Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server("localhost\sqlexpress") For Each db In server.Databases DoSomething(db.name) Next Does return the installed databases on both machines. I have

I've read a dozen different blogs, as well as reading through the msdn examples and they just aren't working for me. Ultimately what I'm trying to do is automate moving a DB from our production instance to our dev instance, or the other direction. The approach I've taken is thus: backup/restore to a temp DB detach temp DB copy mdf and ldf files to the other instance reattach. I'm stuck on 1 and I cannot understand why. Everything I've read claims this should be working. NOTE: I've set dbName to the db I want to restore to. I have also set restore.Database = dbName , where restore is an

I have an small question I didn't found an answer yet: how do I get in c# and using Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo the table a foreign key column is referring to? foreach (Column column in currentTable.Columns) { if (column.IsForeignKey) { //GET TABLE FOREIGN KEY REFERS TO } } BFree You should start from the table itself, and enumerate all of it's foreign keys. Sample code: foreach (ForeignKey key in currentTable.ForeignKeys) { foreach (ForeignKeyColumn column in key.Columns) { Console.WriteLine("Column: {0} is a foreign key to Table: {1}",column.Name,key.ReferencedTable); } } EDIT: Small change. In

I'm creating a database using SQL Server Management Objects . I wrote the following method to generate a database: public static void CreateClientDatabase(string serverName, string databaseName) { using (var connection = new SqlConnection(GetClientSqlConnectionString(serverName, String.Empty))) { var server = new Server(new ServerConnection(connection)); var clientDatabase = new Database(server, databaseName); clientDatabase.Create(); server.ConnectionContext.Disconnect(); } } Shortly thereafter, I call another method to execute a SQL script to generate tables, etc.: public static void

I'm using IronPython and the clr module to retrieve SQL Server information via SMO. I'd like to retrieve/store this data in a SQL Server database using SQL Alchemy, but am having some trouble loading the pyodbc module. Here's the setup: IronPython 2.6.1 (installed at D:\Program Files\IronPython) CPython 2.6.5 (installed at D:\Python26) SQL Alchemy 0.6.1 (installed at D:\Python26\Lib\site-packages\sqlalchemy) pyodbc 2.1.7 (installed at D:\Python26\Lib\site-packages) I have these entries in the IronPython site.py to import CPython standard and third-party libraries: # Add CPython standard libs

I would like to automate script generation (in SSMS --> Tasks --> Generate Scripts) in SSMS 2008. I have read that SQL Server 2008 does not support Database Publishing Wizard (including SQLPUBWIZ SCRIPT) but this automation can be done using SMO in SQL Server 2008. I don't have a clue about SMO and how to do this using SMO, so could you give me some advice (resources etc.) how to begin? The key to SMO scripting is the Scripter class. All other tools (like SSMS) use this class to generated object creation scripts. There is an example usage on MSDN : { //Connect to the local, default instance of