Translating Books Online References to Web Pages

Books Online is available in both a "full" client installation or on the web. In the URL bar of the client you'll see a reference for each topic. If you want to send that topic to a friend who might not have Books Online install, there's a way to translate the URL in Books Online to a Web-based URL for Books Online.

To translate, look for the long number in the Books Online local client URL bar. It looks something like this:

ms-help://MS.SQLCC.v9/MS.SQLSVR.v9.en/sqlwhtn9/html/a52b229b-3aa6-4fa7-895d-bf46b4bc1da3.htm

You want the long number, that looks like this:

a52b229b-3aa6-4fa7-895d-bf46b4bc1da3

Now just plug that in to this link:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/BOL GUID HERE.aspx

So that makes this web reference:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/library/a52b229b-3aa6-4fa7-895d-bf46b4bc1da3.aspx