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SQL Server User Education blog on MSDN has this update about SQL Server 2000 BOL Update - Don't forget to update your local version copy with this latest release. You can download the updated SQL Server 2000 Books Online from the Microsoft Download Center. .

SQL Server version 2005 Books Online aka BOL has been updated by SQL Development Team in September 2007 and not available for download yet. As usual they are awaiting customer feedback from the BOL or via MSDN/Technet pages. Refer in their words: In the past, our processes for building the Books Online downloads have been faster than the ...

Well this is confusing me, this DownloadLink refers SQL Server 2005 Books Online as May 2007 update that can be installed on the machine. But when you search for any content on MSDN library for SQL Server it refers ''SQL Server 2005 Books Online (September 2007)'' on the sections (majority of them I have seen). I'm aware that many times if ...

Whenever a CTP release is available it is best to refer to the documentation to know about the features that are available in this CTP are documented. In this case ensure you have downloaded the Books Online from that CTP release and open the BOL then go to 'What's New (component_name)'  from Search option. For example, the ...

Yet another update to SQL Server 2005 Books Online, though it states May 2007 update that was released on June 06th 2007! During February 2007 with the release of Service pack 2 Microsoft has updated the BOL content to reflect the changes with SP2. For this one: The May 2007 update to Books Online contains new material and fixes to ...

You may be aware that SP_READERRORLOG can be used from a query analyzer or query editor to read the error log contents without opening the file on the disk or from Management Studio (or Enterprise Manager). I'm not sure whether you have observed that there is a change in behaviour between SQL 2000 and 2005 versions. The problem here is ...

Microsoft has invested fair amount of time in providing 'sensible' documentation or references since last few years as compared to the initial windows days. Recently with the Trustoworthy Computing intiative has made the product documentation a lot better, but this is not applicable on the SQL Server 2005 x64 bit edition! You have to search a lot ...