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Monday, June 22, 2009 7:53 AM

Help Me Help You

Before I start this post, let me say that it is not pointed at any one person - if you've asked me for help recently, this isn't about you! The programming and administration computer disciplines are fairly unique, in my mind, in one interesting way:
Posted by Buck Woody | 1 Comments
Thursday, March 12, 2009 8:15 PM

... and yet another way to find SQL Server Instances with PowerShell ...

I got another great comment today on the last two posts: Good article today on searching out SQL servers with PS. The combination of your and Ben's methods work best though. In Ben's example, you have to pull back all the Win32_Service objects and then
Posted by Buck Woody | 1 Comments
Thursday, August 09, 2007 7:55 AM

The Biggest Problem We Face

Last night I gave a presentation to the Pacific Northwest SQL User Group. I mentioned that we often think our biggest problems are lack of time, too much work, people we have to deal with or technical issues. But all of us get done only what we can, we
Posted by Buck Woody | 1 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
Posted by Buck Woody | 2 Comments
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
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
Posted by Buck Woody | 3 Comments
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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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