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Re: SQL server 2008 doc in PDF available ?

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From	Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net>
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Date	Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:20:21 -0700
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On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:20:04 +0200, Erland Sommarskog
<esquel@sommarskog.se> wrote:

>Gene Wirchenko (genew@ocis.net) writes:
>>      I share OP's pain.  It is very difficult to find anything in the
>> docs above the purely tactical level of the individual command.  I
>> would like to be able to read a book-like document.
> 
>I used to have a set of books which was the documentation for SQL 2000.
>I think it was six books, and something 30 cm in total. Still it was only
>about one third of the contents of Books Online. And the amount of contents
>has swollen considerably since then. It would be a large set of PDFs, and
>not very manageable.

     I do not find Books Online to be manageable.  I can reliably only
find individual commands.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

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    Re: SQL server 2008 doc in PDF available ? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-06-08 12:28 -0700
      Re: SQL server 2008 doc in PDF available ? Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2011-06-08 23:20 +0200
        Re: SQL server 2008 doc in PDF available ? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-06-08 19:20 -0700
          Re: SQL server 2008 doc in PDF available ? Erland Sommarskog <esquel@sommarskog.se> - 2011-06-09 23:42 +0200
            Re: SQL server 2008 doc in PDF available ? Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2011-06-09 18:42 -0700

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