add-type -AssemblyName "Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Sdk.Sfc, Version=12.0.0.0,Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=89845dcd8080cc91" -ErrorAction Stop. Note that I am running SQL Server 2014 so ...

I was talking to a good friend at Microsoft last week, telling him about the problems I’ve been having with SQL Server Management Objects (SMO).

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Transfers databases between different instances of SQL Server 2005 (and higher) Transfers databases while they remain available online to users, with the SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) method; ...

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