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BOL Update

  • January 20, 2004 at 7:08 am

    #81877

    Hi there,

    thought I'd drop this right in

    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=a6f79cb1-a420-445f-8a4b-bd77a7da194b&displaylang=en

    --
    Frank Kalis
    Microsoft SQL Server MVP
    Webmaster: http://www.insidesql.org/blogs
    My blog: http://www.insidesql.org/blogs/frankkalis/[/url]

  • January 20, 2004 at 9:10 am

    #490844

    Thanks for passing that on.

    Think great, be great!

  • January 20, 2004 at 9:50 am

    #490849

    Thanks Frank....

    MS Site has - "

    Download Size:

    13 KB - 34452 KB

    Don't they know how big it is?



    Once you understand the BITs, all the pieces come together

  • January 20, 2004 at 10:27 am

    #490859

    I'm sure they are aware, but this is the easiest way for them to deploy BOL.

  • January 20, 2004 at 1:34 pm

    #490902

    Ok, installed on WinXP PC fine, my "old" PC (don't ask - pre anything you probably have) gives me "... You must install a Windows service pack that contains a newer version of the Windows Installer service.", so I thought, let's just get the file from the XP box... well looking in Program Files....\tools\books the only "new" files are small "sql80.col" - 12K, "hh.dat" - 4k. (serious compression huh). Anyway does anyone know THE real file SQL2K BOL is in?

    Thanks



    Once you understand the BITs, all the pieces come together

  • January 21, 2004 at 7:26 am

    #490971

    Prior to Frank's post I downloaded sqlbolsetup.cab (SQL2K (SP3) BOL). The cab contains setup plus msi's for the Windows Installer and one msi for BOL. It installed to the default location

    C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server Books Online\1033

    and it is not one file but many and they are dated 2002.

    I'm going to check if Frank's url is a later version

    Far away is close at hand in the images of elsewhere.
    Anon.

  • January 21, 2004 at 7:31 am

    #490972

    Dave,

    when you start BOL and click on the ©1988-2004 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved. at thebottom of the start page, which Version number do you see there?

    ©1988-2004 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

    ...

    Mine is Version: 8.00.002

    Might be MS only changed the copyright to 2004

    --
    Frank Kalis
    Microsoft SQL Server MVP
    Webmaster: http://www.insidesql.org/blogs
    My blog: http://www.insidesql.org/blogs/frankkalis/[/url]

  • January 21, 2004 at 7:32 am

    #490973

    Sorry, actually don't try the link above. Copy and paste seems to be harder than I thought

    --
    Frank Kalis
    Microsoft SQL Server MVP
    Webmaster: http://www.insidesql.org/blogs
    My blog: http://www.insidesql.org/blogs/frankkalis/[/url]

  • January 21, 2004 at 7:42 am

    #490977

    My link is

    ©1988-2002 Microsoft Corporation. All Rights Reserved.

    and shows

    Version: 8.00.002

    Gonna try your url now

    Far away is close at hand in the images of elsewhere.
    Anon.

  • January 21, 2004 at 7:45 am

    #490979

    Just took a look at the directory. There should be a lot of files modified on 11/21/2003.

    --
    Frank Kalis
    Microsoft SQL Server MVP
    Webmaster: http://www.insidesql.org/blogs
    My blog: http://www.insidesql.org/blogs/frankkalis/[/url]

  • January 21, 2004 at 7:57 am

    #490981

    Thanks

    I'll go ahead and serch the whole C:\Program Files..... for the DateTime, but I do not have a "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server Books Online" dir. Got VS6, VS.NET, VS.NET 2003.... and more MS stuff on my XP box, maybe because they "share" the whole BOL stuff, it's in one of those dir's ???



    Once you understand the BITs, all the pieces come together

  • January 21, 2004 at 8:02 am

    #490984

    Have a look at the properties for the shortcut (if there is one) on the programs menu, it should tell you where the files are.

    Far away is close at hand in the images of elsewhere.
    Anon.

  • January 21, 2004 at 8:07 am

    #490986

    Shortcut just points to that 12KB "SQL80.COL" file in ...\80\tools\books dir



    Once you understand the BITs, all the pieces come together

  • January 21, 2004 at 8:12 am

    #490989

    I have the german edition of BOL installed in this ..\80\ dir and the english version in the \1033 dir.

    --
    Frank Kalis
    Microsoft SQL Server MVP
    Webmaster: http://www.insidesql.org/blogs
    My blog: http://www.insidesql.org/blogs/frankkalis/[/url]

  • January 21, 2004 at 8:17 am

    #490993

    My shortcut shows

    Target

    C:\WINNT\System32\hh.exe sql80en.col

    Start In

    "C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server Books Online\1033\"

    The Start In dir contains

    123 File(s)     39,038,612 bytes

    Far away is close at hand in the images of elsewhere.
    Anon.

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