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It’s two helps in one!
02 October 07 08:23 AM | Buck Woody | 2 Comments   
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 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...
Translating Books Online References to Web Pages
17 May 07 09:00 AM | Buck Woody | 2 Comments   
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 Read More...
Microsoft Update Now Updates Books Online
16 May 07 03:01 PM | Buck Woody | 1 Comments   
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 Read More...
The Grand Unified Theory
30 April 07 10:25 AM | Buck Woody | 0 Comments   
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 Read More...
Stupid BOL Tricks - #1
19 April 07 10:42 AM | Buck Woody | 2 Comments   
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 Read More...
How Do I Do That?
12 April 07 01:24 PM | Buck Woody | 1 Comments   
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 Read More...
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Great new Learning Resource
30 March 07 11:04 AM | Buck Woody | 3 Comments   
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 Read More...
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Is Books Online Online?
07 March 07 08:23 AM | Buck Woody | 1 Comments   
"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 Read More...
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Using the Search Feature
23 February 07 07:54 AM | Buck Woody | 0 Comments   
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 Read More...
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SQL Server 2005 Books Online is Updated!
19 February 07 10:33 AM | Buck Woody | 0 Comments   
As I mentioned in my last blog post , SQL Server is updated several times a year - our team calls this a "web refresh". Isn't it great that we come up with new words to describe things? Anyway, SQL Server Service Pack 2 just released , and Books Online Read More...
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SQL Server Books Online
14 February 07 09:32 AM | Buck Woody | 13 Comments   
Most of us have stacks of books on our shelves about SQL Server. But you also have an amazing resource that you get for free with SQL Server, or even on the web: Books Online. Some of you might not know how SQL Server Books Online is put together and Read More...
Attachment(s): SQLServerBooksOnline.mp3
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