Saturday, January 14, 2006

Many of you have probably already downloaded the refreshed Books Online but if not - you should! LOTS AND LOTS of updates/good stuff in there.

Check it out: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/sql/2005/downloads/books.mspx

That should keep you busy for a bit! ;-)

Happy New Year!
kt

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Sunday, January 29, 2006 5:39:51 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
I downloaded the Dec update to BOL for SQL 2005 a couple days after Microsoft made it available and was blissfully ignorant of the fact that I hadn't actually downloaded the update but the original (and so didn't have any of the new content - oops); it wasn't my fault, honestly - I was one of the minority affected by a download caching stuff up (see Brian Moran's short note on the subject: http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/49192/49192.html). Anyway, I grabbed it again, installed it and am happily meandering down the myriad neural pathways contained therein.

I'm constantly amazed by the collective MSSQL knowledge encompassed in Books Online - every time I open it (and that's every day) I learn something new (or at least refresh my memory on something that had long since been "paged out to disk")!

Cheers,
Mike.
Sunday, January 29, 2006 6:26:55 PM (Pacific Standard Time, UTC-08:00)
Hey there Mike - Glad you found Brian's article. Yes, a few people were affected by this! And - as far as the BOL being amazing and full of content...yes, I completely agree. I think the BOL get overlooked quite often and NOT for good reason. Of course, nothing's perfect - everything ships with bugs.... but, it really should be the first place for someone to look and dig to try to start unraveling a problem or designing/architecting a new solution.

Cheers,
kt
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