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Sunday, August 30, 2009 10:20 AM

PBM – it’s like liquid awesome!

Brent Ozar and Thomas LaRock do a 3 part video series on the power of Policy-based Management (PBM). Interestingly SCOM comes up several times in the discussion.   They cover the basics of PBM and Thomas goes into more depth on how he’s using it
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Sunday, April 19, 2009 5:22 PM

PCI Compliance and SQL Server 2008

Today compliance is a huge focus area for IT. Since compliance is written by lawyers for lawyers it takes a fair amount of translation to get it to the point where IT can understand what processes, policies, and configuration to implement to meet the
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Tuesday, November 25, 2008 7:03 PM

Application & Multi-Server Management

@ the SQL PASS Summit on 11/20 we announced our plans to release new capabilities for improving the collaboration between Data-Tier Developers and DBA and to address Multi-Server (or multi-instance) manageability for SQL Server. Anthony Carrabino has
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Sunday, October 26, 2008 1:01 PM

Addressing Compliance with SQL Server 2008

JC Cannon, Senior PM on the SQL Server team, presents this webcast where he explores some of the new features in SQL Server 2008 and describes how they can be used to help an organization address their compliance needs.   In the webcast JC covers:
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Friday, June 13, 2008 1:44 PM

TechEd 2008 is Done!

I'm writing this on the plane from Orlando back to Seattle. I have lots of thoughts on TechEd that I'll try to get through before I run out of battery or the guy in front of me snaps my laptop display. I also want to answer a few of the questions that
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008 7:50 PM

Announcing the Policy-Based Management Blog

Today we launched a new blog dedicated to Policy-Based Management . Take a look and send us your suggestions for topics. My goal is to have people from the PBM development team write and publish postings. Together we can make PBM an amazing feature. I'm
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Saturday, March 29, 2008 2:39 PM

Policy History Table Exception Columns

I was recently asked what the exception_message and exception columns in the msdb.dbo.syspolicy_policy_execution_history_internal table are used for. There are situations where the policy evaluate can throw an exception. For example, if the policy references
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 12:27 PM

SQL2K8 Policy-Based Management Interview on TechNet

I recently sat down with Joey Snow over at TechNet to discuss Policy-Based Management. You can watch the video here .
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Saturday, December 22, 2007 12:29 PM

Declarative Management is Out!

Yes, the title is correct, Declarative Management (DMF) is gone! Did I get your attention? Maybe I should elaborate. About 7 months ago we embarked on a naming project for DMF. We knew that DMF was a little too geeky and didn't necessarily describe the
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Saturday, July 07, 2007 8:04 PM

DMF for your Car

@ Tech Ed this year I opened my session talking about how cars have evolved. The analogy is as we don't tinker with our cars anymore the same is going to have to managing data environments - and DMF is part of the initial wave that'll make this happen.
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Sunday, July 01, 2007 9:36 AM

Declarative Management Performance

There's an interesting thread on the MSDN forums regarding DMF performance or more accurately the overhead of having policies on the system. If you're interesting in using policies on your system and have thoughts on an acceptable overhead go post your
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Tuesday, June 26, 2007 4:58 PM

SQL Server 2008 June CTP, Declarative Management LiveMeeting

Today I presented a LiveMeeting on the Declarative Management features in the SQL Server 2008 June CTP. It should be posted shortly and is accessible here .
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Sunday, June 17, 2007 10:11 AM

Declarative Management: Behind Enforce

The new policy-based admin feature (Declarative Management) in SQL Server 2008 (code-named Katmai) can keep many aspects of the system from falling out of compliance. Some questions that come up are: "how does this work?" and "how come everything can't
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Saturday, June 09, 2007 3:13 PM

Steve Jones on TechEd2007 and SQL2K8 Manageability Features

@ TechEd 2007 I presented an overview session on new manageability features in SQL Server 2008. SQL Server Central's Steve Jones blogged about the session. Steve provides a pretty accurate account of the session (thanks Steve). This is mostly a straight
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Wednesday, June 06, 2007 7:29 PM

SQL Server 2008 June CTP Bug

There is a bug in the SQL Server 2008 June CTP that causes Declarative Management to be inoperable. The fix is very simple. Launch a command line and run the following command: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 8\SDK\v2.0\Bin\sn.exe -Vr Microsoft.SqlServer.DmfSqlClrWrapper,89845DCD8080CC91
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