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Tuesday, September 29, 2009 6:45 AM

Great new Whitepaper on High Availability

Paul Randal, he of SQLskills.com fame, has published a new whitepaper on High Availability with SQL Server. If you follow any SQL Server news or blog sites, you’ve probably already see the announcement for it, but I wanted to mention it here in case you
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Monday, April 06, 2009 7:50 AM

A Web Based Search for Books Online

As many of you know, I used to work on documentation like whitepapers and Books Online for SQL Server. One of the main problems I've found with our documentation isn't that there is not enough content - we have over 65,000 pages in BOL alone - but that
Posted by Buck Woody | 1 Comments
Tuesday, October 02, 2007 8:23 AM

It’s two helps in one!

Did you know that you can show help in two different ways from SQL Server Management Studio? Most of us like the full client of Books Online, which is actually a program called the “DExplorer”. This tool has multiple windows, a URL bar, a search feature
Posted by Buck Woody | 2 Comments
Tuesday, July 03, 2007 12:14 PM

Copying the Favorites from Books Online

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
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Wednesday, June 27, 2007 11:55 AM

Slicing Books Online

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
Posted by Buck Woody | 1 Comments
Thursday, June 14, 2007 2:10 PM

Books Online Innovations

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
Posted by Buck Woody | 1 Comments
Monday, June 11, 2007 9:18 AM

The May 2007 Books Online Update is Available

You can get the latest crunchy SQL Server documentation goodness here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/bb428874.aspx
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Thursday, May 17, 2007 9:00 AM

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
Posted by Buck Woody | 2 Comments
Wednesday, May 16, 2007 3:01 PM

Microsoft Update Now Updates Books Online

I've mentioned before that we update Books Online several times a year, and we're moving to do it even more often. I m very happy to announce that SQL Server 2005 Books Online Doc Refresh 4 is now part of Microsoft Update. This means that customers who
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Monday, April 30, 2007 10:25 AM

The Grand Unified Theory

I've mentioned before that Books Online isn't just a client install, but the same content is also available on the web. In fact, it's available in two places on the web: SQL Server 2005 BOL on TechNet: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms130214.aspx
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Thursday, April 19, 2007 10:42 AM

Stupid BOL Tricks - #1

I just found this out today. If you have Books Online installed on your system, did you know you can look at the local content in a regular old web browser? At the top of a Books Online topic, you'll see a URL bar. The URL starts with ms-help:// , which
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Thursday, April 12, 2007 1:24 PM

How Do I Do That?

Did you know you can quickly locate all kinds of topics that walk you step-by-step through a lot of the common tasks in SQL Server, from backups to creating a report in Reporting Services? In the local client (DExplorer) tool, just look on the top bar
Posted by Buck Woody | 1 Comments
Attachment(s): HowDoIDoThat.mp3
Friday, March 30, 2007 11:04 AM

Great new Learning Resource

We have a lot of content out there - a LOT. But how do you find it all? We have a great new resource that one of our team members put together. It’s a customized Windows Live search, that limits results to Books Online. Check this out, and make sure you
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Attachment(s): GreatNewLearningResource.mp3
Wednesday, March 07, 2007 8:23 AM

Is Books Online Online?

"Books Online" has become an industry standard for documentation, with a really long history. Before it became so large, it used to actually be a set of books, and you could read them electronically, hence the name. But Books Online is no longer published
Posted by Buck Woody | 1 Comments
Attachment(s): IsBooksOnlineOnline.mp3
Friday, February 23, 2007 7:54 AM

Using the Search Feature

SQL Server Books Online is an absolutely huge resource. With over 58,000 pages that change several times a year, it's like getting all of the books at one time that you are ever going to use from Grade-School through College. Not only that, it is used
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Attachment(s): UsingTheSearchFeature.mp3
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