From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   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.   
      
      
   --   
   Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.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   
      
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