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  • Full text thesaurus files bug in documentation

    I don't normally blog about documentation errors generally because they're often not that major however this one is fundamental what is being explained. This is the page online http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7f5424a4-a72c-44dc-b455-786a12767c99.aspx It talks about creating new thesaurus...
    Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Sat, Sep 22 2007
  • Whats in a BOL link?

    In using BOLyou will have noticed that the links in BOL contain some lovely guids. I often want to reference BOL in documents, forum posts etc but was concerned that the guids might change. So I asked Alan Brewer whether they change or not. He gave me a great response which I've got his permission...
    Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Thu, Aug 16 2007
  • SQL Server 2005 May 2007 BOL now available

    Thanks to Gail Erickson of the SQL Server Documentation Team notifying me of the availability of May BOL. The May 2007 release of Books Online is available on MSDN and on the download site. This is a very targeted update to BOL and is limited to correcting technical inaccuracies in a handful of topics...
    Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Mon, Jun 4 2007
  • SQL Server Trace Event Definitions

    If you are using Event Notifications or capturing events in Profiler you undoubtedly have noticed that MS have used the same columns (xml elements) for storing different data for each event. For example there is an element called "integer data". You may ask what is stored in here cos it ain't...
    Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Fri, Mar 23 2007
  • Online Index White Paper

    Paul Randal recently informed me of a new white paper on online index operations. The whitepaper can be found here Online Index White Paper . This is one of many whitepapers that have been published lately by Bob Internals Troubleshooting ImplementingScaleOut ConnectivitySSIS - var height=90;var width...
    Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Fri, Mar 16 2007
  • SQL Server documentation sucks

    If you think that SQL Server Documentation is lacking then make sure you provide feedback using the links at the bottom of the page. There is a big push to make sure the content of books online is what users want. There are regular releases of BOL which means that any suggestions you make you can be...
    Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Fri, Nov 17 2006
  • July books online available for download and its free

    I really like this new constant update of documentation coming from the SQL team The BOL can be found here " SQL Server 2005 July Books Online " Some of the samples have changed in the SQL Server Samples. They can all be found here "SQL Server 2005 Samples" Happy reading - google_ad_client = "pub-9351707026400773...
    Posted to Simons SQL Blog (Weblog) by simonsabin on Sat, Jul 22 2006
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