The veritable maze of WSA specifications can be a bit overwhelming to capture in the beginning. Microsoft's graphic is helpful, but here's a nice timeline that shows the evolution of the specs, and, to my mind, their gathering momentum.
Share this timeline with a colleague who's just getting introduced to the WSA.
Here's two postings I put up in the SqlJunkies forum. It introduces the new managed apis for SQL Server Management: SQL Management Objects (SMO).
What's the VS2005 line on management APIs?
Posted: 05-17-2004 07:00 PM
When SQL 2000 came out there was lip service paid to using WMI over SQLDMO, but it wasn't "very there". Have they redoubled their efforts to support for WMI or do they now have a custom .NET API for management?
Posted: 05-19-2004 09:58 PM
Wouldn't you know it. No sooner had I entered this post when the same evening I read about SMO in my SQL Server Magazine issue!
Here's the link, if you are a member:
http://www.winnetmag.com/Article/ArticleID/40993/40993.html
Official MS Info here:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/yukon/maintain/sqlydba.mspx#XSLTsection128121120120 (Scroll down a little)
Clemens Vasters, a prominent .NET SOA thinker, gives us a nifty acronym to remember the tenants of server oriented architecture: PEACE
- Policy-Based Behavior Negotiation
- Explicitness of Boundaries
- Autonomy
- Contract
Exchange
Update: Steve Hall, ahem, corrected my listing: Contract Exchange is a single bullet point.