Re: New Books Online Update Available.

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From: s_m_b (smb20002ns_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 02/23/04


Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 06:49:52 -0800


"Alan Brewer [MSFT]" <alanbr@microsoft.com> wrote in
news:#7e7p753DHA.3656@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl:

great, downloaded it, now it refuses to open the sql80.col file!

> A new update to the SQL Server 2000 Books Online is now available from
> the Microsoft Download Center. This version of the Books Online will
> also be in the January update of the MSDN Library.
>
> To download the update, go to www.microsoft.com and select Downloads
> in the left pane. On the Download Center page, select SQL Server as
> the Product/Technology, enter Books Online in the keyword box, and
> select Go. Look for the Books Online (Updated) entry that indicates it
> is the January, 2004 update with a date of 1/16/2004.
>
> The topic What's New in SQL Server Books Online has a table with links
> to the topics that were significantly changed or are new in this
> update. You can also get a list of the new topics by searching on the
> string "January 2004".
>
> This update to the Books Online includes miscellaneous bug fixes and
> some additional error message descriptions. Most of the new material
> in this update is related to SQL Server 2000 Desktop Engine (MSDE
> 2000):
>
> The MSDE 2000 setup reference documentation has been updated to
> reflect the changes introduced to MSDE 2000 setup in SQL Server 2000
> Service Pack 3 (SP3) and SP3a. The setup reference material also
> addresses some of the issues encountered by users installing MSDE 2000
> SP3, SP3a, and MSDE 2000 Release A. The Books Online now recommends
> using a wrapper installer program instead of using the MSDE 2000 merge
> modules to integrate the setup of MSDE 2000 with an application.
> Further details on developing wrapper programs is found in the MSDE
> 2000 Deployment Resource Kit on http://www.microsoft.com/sql/msde/.
>
> The update includes a description of how the SQL Server 2000 Books
> Online documentation for the database engine applies to MSDE 2000.
>
> The update includes a high-level description of how to use the osql
> utility. MSDE 2000 customers often have to use osql to administer
> their instances of MSDE 2000, and inexperienced users were hampered by
> not understanding how to use osql.
>
> The update includes an expanded description of the workload governor
> included in SQL Server 2000 Personal Edition and MSDE 2000.
>
> All topics specifically discussing MSDE 2000 now contain the string
> MSDE 2000 so that searches using MSDE 2000 will locate those topics.
> There are two index entries, one named Desktop Engine and the other
> MSDE 2000, and all MSDE 2000 topics have been indexed under those
> entries.
>



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