Fellow Monks,

Our company uses SMS for pretty much everything desktop related. From a security standpoint it's essential to my job for searching for computer names, user names, and ip addresses. I finally received read only access to our SMS database after much fighting. I was planning on writing a CGI interface using DBI as the backend to connect and query the SMS SQL database, but then I seen this on Microsoft's site: Microsoft Propaganda basically saying they don't want any non-microsoft product interacting with their product so they are not going to publish the database schema. I looked at the database and it must have 300 or so tables. I've been able to figure out where some of the information is that I'm looking for, but I was wondering if anyone has tried something similar? Microsoft recommends using Excel (which is what my SMS admin wants me to use), but I feel it's primative to use a spreadsheet for querying a database as well as extremely slow.

Any help would be appreaciated. I searched this site and couldn't find anything and also searched CPAN for any related modules, but no luck

Thanks,
Dru
Another satisfied monk.

In reply to Using Perl to access a Microsoft SMS Database by dru145

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