how can I read the documentation when I´m offline ?
Is there a PDF version available for SQL server 2008 R2 ?
Where can I find it ?

RabasMa1 (AT) web (DOT) de wrote:
Install Books OnLine (BOL) on your machine - it's included in the SQL
installation disk.
You can also find it available for download at microsoft.com (actually, the
Microsoft Download Center) with a little searching.

On Wed, 8 Jun 2011 15:10:30 -0400, "Bob Barrows"
<reb01501 (AT) NOyahooSPAM (DOT) com> wrote:

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.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

Gene Wirchenko (genew (AT) ocis (DOT) net) writes:
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.


--
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel (AT) sommarskog (DOT) se

Links for SQL Server Books Online:
SQL 2008: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/cc514207.aspx
SQL 2005: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/bb895970.aspx

On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:20:04 +0200, Erland Sommarskog
<esquel (AT) sommarskog (DOT) se> wrote:

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

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko

Gene Wirchenko (genew (AT) ocis (DOT) net) writes:
Yes, that amount of information is difficult to manage in any format.
But at least Books Online has search functions and an index, which goes
beyond what a plain PDF could offer.


--
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel (AT) sommarskog (DOT) se

Links for SQL Server Books Online:
SQL 2008: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/cc514207.aspx
SQL 2005: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/bb895970.aspx

On Thu, 09 Jun 2011 23:42:05 +0200, Erland Sommarskog
<esquel (AT) sommarskog (DOT) se> wrote:

One thing that a book has that on-line documentation does not (at
least, not usually) is an order. I can keep flipping pages and
eventually get everything. With on-line documentation, there is
always the possibility of missing whole sections.

Sincerely,

Gene Wirchenko