Creating an SMO Dashboard - Part 1

Tim Mitchell shows us how to build a basic web based dashboard that returns some useful information about our servers and databases using SMO (SQL Management Objects) and a bit of .net code. Part 2 is available for viewing as well

Tim Mitchell is a Microsoft SQL Server database developer, business intelligence consultant, writer, and speaker. He has been working professionally with SQL Server for over six years, and holds the MCTS and MCDBA certifications from Microsoft as well as a Bachelor's degree in computer science from Texas A&M University - Commerce.

MattP on 4/8/2009

Volume was very low and difficult to hear, without turning up PC volume to max.

Mark Weichman on 4/8/2009

would like to see more sessions on things to do with SMO...starting from the basics

Ahmad Elayyan on 4/8/2009

excellent !!!! 100%. i loved this demo.

Brian K McDonald on 4/8/2009

I figured there would be gauge's, charts, graph's, images, etc. to show some of the metrics. Don't most dashboards have some of these?

Don on 4/8/2009

The volumn of this video was very low making it hard to hear. Most of your videos have a good volumn level but it would be nice if the volumn could be regulated somehow so this problem doesn't come up again.

Carla Wilson on 4/8/2009

Very nice. Just starting to learn about SMO. Any chance that for some of these videos, the code could be offered from a link on the video's page?

Holck on 4/8/2009

When you said Dashboard, I was expecting something prettier. Basically you gave a lesson in ADO.NET. I'd at least expect charts or, even if you didn't build them in the video, some examples of what you can do with SMO Dashboards.

7727CACFEB on 4/8/2009

nice, excellent tutorial.

Lance on 4/9/2009

Not enough background was discussed first

Ludwig on 4/18/2009

good job...

01EFFB45CF on 8/29/2009

Great start in SMO. I am a newb to SMO.

Raghu ram on 12/2/2009

Great help to explore