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   Gene Wirchenko to esquel@sommarskog.se   
   Re: SQL server 2008 doc in PDF available   
   08 Jun 11 19:20:21   
   
   From: genew@ocis.net   
      
   On Wed, 08 Jun 2011 23:20:04 +0200, Erland Sommarskog   
    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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