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A SQL-DMO object exposes the attributes of a Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2000 component. Distributed Management Objects (DMO) is a set of programmable objects that come with SQL Server that make it easy to programatically administer your databases. SQL-DMO is actually the foundation of Enterprise Manager, so you can pretty much do anything programatically that you can do in the management tools. Some of these tasks include :

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Do you ever want to execute slq statements at once. I mean SQL Script file. Normally we are using like following commands to Execute Single SQL statement. SqlCommand cmd = new SqlCommand(sSQL, conn); cmd.ExecuteNonQuery(); cmd.Dispose(); but this way you can execute one command at a time. We cannot execute SQL script using above command. Normal SQL Script Like this. if exists (select * from dbo.sysobjects where id = object_id(N'[dbo].[FK__titleauth__au_id__0519C6AF]') and OBJECTPROPERTY(id, N'IsForeignKey') = 1) ALTER TABLE [dbo].[titleauthor] DROP CONSTRAINT FK__titleauth__au_id__0519C6AF GO CREATE TABLE [dbo].[authors] ( [au_id] [id] NOT NULL , [au_lname] [varchar] (40) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NOT NULL , [au_fname] [varchar] (20) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NOT NULL , [phone] [char] (12) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NOT NULL , [address] [varchar] (40) COLLATE SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS NULL , [city] [varchar] (20) COLL

Through the application configaration file You can easily save values to later usage. you can create a application configuration file from project > Add New Item (Ctrl + Shift + A) example You want to add get string from config file Create a Config file using above step. after that insert following code to the config file. its a XML file. appsettings add key="DatabasePath" value="c:\\projects\data\spider.mdb" add key="SupportEmail" value="webmaster-1@dotnetspider.com" appsettings configuration in the coding add following Dim app As New System.Configuration.AppSettingsReader Dim s As String s = app.GetValue("DatabasePath", Type.GetType("System.String")) MessageBox.Show(s) its very easy when you are handling databases. you can store database connection string in that config for later reusabilty. Please post your comments