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Changes on the Developer and TechCenters for MSDN
27 May 08 10:05 AM | Buck Woody | 0 Comments   
I'm not sure if you've noticed the changes on the SQL Server Developer Center on MSDN or SQL Server TechCenter on TechNet. If not, you should definitely check them out. Here are a few highlights: · On the home page of both MSDN and TechNet, you’ll see Read More...
MSDN and TechNet SQL Server Sites Linked
09 January 08 02:28 PM | Buck Woody | 2 Comments   
SQL Server can be a strange animal - we have no direct end users, but we do have Developers and DBA's. For years we've have two sites that the two camps have used: MSDN for Developers, and TechNet for DBA's. But of course, there is no such thing as a Read More...
Marketing Drivel versus Technical Information
10 September 07 08:54 AM | Buck Woody | 1 Comments   
One of the most frustrating things to deal with is trying to find technical information on a product, and running into marketing documents instead. Actually, I've run into the other situation as well - I want marketing information to back up some buying Read More...
Copying the Favorites from Books Online
03 July 07 12:14 PM | Buck Woody | 2 Comments   
I get asked a lot if it is possible to copy the Favorites from Books Online to another Favorites folder on another computer. The answer is yes! The Help Favorites are stored by default in: C:\Documents and Settings\username\Application Data\Microsoft\Microsoft Read More...
Slicing Books Online
27 June 07 11:55 AM | Buck Woody | 0 Comments   
With all of the content in Books Online arranged into a single table-of-contents, it’s sometimes difficult to find information that “spans” topics. For instance, if you want to find out about general security topics, you’ll find they are spread across Read More...
Books Online Innovations
14 June 07 02:10 PM | Buck Woody | 1 Comments   
It's just documentation - right? Well, there's actually a bit more to it than that. Of course, we update the content of Books Online all the time, as I've mentioned before. But we've also innovated in the way that we present and deliver the content. I Read More...
The May 2007 Books Online Update is Available
11 June 07 09:18 AM | Buck Woody | 1 Comments   
You can get the latest crunchy SQL Server documentation goodness here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/bb428874.aspx Read More...
Gee, there don't appear to be as many error codes in 2K5 BOL as there are in 2K BOL...
11 May 07 01:08 PM | Buck Woody | 0 Comments   
You’re right – we don’t document as many error codes in 2K5 as we did in 2K. Some don’t apply; others aren’t encountered as often. In fact, we didn’t document all of the 2K errors either, we just had more of them because there was so much time between Read More...
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