Under http://www.informit.com/guides/content.aspx?g=sqlserver&seqNum=321 you say to use "what Microsoft is doing ... and use that information to collect it against “lower” versions of SQL Server, in particular SQL Server 2005."
First of all, it appears that you extract the Data Collection source code from 2008 and then run it on your 2005 servers after confirming that the underlying query(s) run cleanly. This creates a data collection set - a remote job that is scheduled on
the 2005 instance - that feeds data into the central management server running on 2008. Is this correct? It seems counter-intuitive to me that we have acentral management server that relies on the scheduler of the remote instance.
Assuming that I'm correct (that the data collection is initiated on the remote server), SQL 2005 doesn't have a "Data Collection" branch in the object explorer so I assume that you have to do everything through SQL commands. Can you show some examples or recommend other site that explain how to set this up.
Ken