One of the most exciting new technologies in SQL Server's Yukon release provides a programmatic access layer that lets database administrators and developers work directly with database objects in any Microsoft .NET language. Yukon's SQL Management Objects (SMO) replaces SQL-DMO, a set of APIs you can use to create and manage SQL Server database objects. Although SQL-DMO will still ship as part of Yukon, Microsoft isn't adding features to it or enhancing it to eliminate or reduce its performance...