Policies
A policy is a standard for a single setting of an object. It ultimately acts as a verification mechanism of one or more conditions of the required state of SQL Server targets. Typical scenarios for creating policies include imposing Surface Area Configuration settings, enforcing naming conventions on database objects, enforcing database and transaction log placement, and controlling recovery models. As mentioned earlier, a tremendous number of policies can be created against SQL Server 2008 systems. Surface Area Configurations are a very common policy, especially because the SQL Server 2005 Surface Area Configuration tool has been deprecated in SQL Server 2008.
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A policy can contain only one condition and can be either enabled ...
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