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What ever happened to SQL Server Enterprise Policy Management (EPM)?

TimGordonJones-4951 21 Reputation points
2023-01-07T08:20:35.1+00:00

What ever happened to Enterprise Policy Management (EPM).
Was delivered with SQL 2012 but seems to have disappeared in SQL 2019 and later?
I have found some source code on Github but this refers to 2008 as latest version - https://github.com/microsoft/sql-server-samples/tree/master/samples/features/epm-framework .

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  1. Bruce (SqlWork.com) 69,501 Reputation points
    2023-01-07T16:21:24.197+00:00

    There was a team a MS that developed sample enterprise libraries. The team has disbanded, and opened sourced their code. Libraries that were popular enough found new supporters.

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  1. Erland Sommarskog 115.6K Reputation points MVP
    2023-01-07T10:11:55.747+00:00

    I will have to admit that I don't recall having heard of EPM before, but when googling I found a blog post from Pedro Lopes from 2019, which announces v4 of the Framework.

    I don't think that EPM was shipped with SQL 2012 (because if so, I would have noticed), but it has always been something you downloaded separately. So this is why you don't find it with SQL 2019.

    I see that EPM sits on top of Policy-Based Management, that was introduced in SQL 2008, and which still ships with SQL 2022. But my impression is that PBM never caught on big, and I don't think there have been many enhancements to PBM since the initial release.

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