In a previous Practical .NET column I showed how to retrieve rows that hold JSON objects by querying on values in those objects’ properties. However, sometimes you’ll want to work with the complete ...

Let me explain. Traditionally, SQL Distributed Management Objects (DMO) and SMO have been complicated enough to code that many DBAs stayed away from them.

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