Black Hats

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Black Hats

Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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October 14, 2007 at 9:04 am

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Mark Harr SSCrazy Eights Points: 9921 More actions · Answer 1

Re: Books Online update.

Steve; I don't see a SQL Server Books Online downloadable update yet. The downloadable version is still May 2007. Online version is dated September 2007, but it looks like the downloadable version has not been updated yet. (I would assume the downloadable versions may still waiting on language updates.)

Mark

Matt Miller (4) SSC Guru Points: 124210 More actions · Answer 2

Try windows update (under optional downloads). It prompted me for an updated one the other day.

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736270 More actions · Answer 3

Mark,

you are correct. I saw the online update, but not the download. I've pinged a few people at MS to see if I can get this updated and get a link.

Mark Harr SSCrazy Eights Points: 9921 More actions · Answer 4

Matt Miller (10/15/2007)
Try windows update (under optional downloads). It prompted me for an updated one the other day.

Matt, was your update for the September 2007 update? Or the May 2007 update? The May update did come through Windows Update, but my Windows Update does not show the September update yet.

And the download site does not have the September update either.

Mark

Wayne West SSC-Insane Points: 22586 More actions · Answer 5

I don't know how extensively MS is using Live to index their own site, but I'm quite thoroughly sick of Microsoft's site search engine. Recently I've been doing web site development in ASP, something that I've never done before, and I've had to do lots of searching. It seems like half of the links that MS provides me for their site are dead!

Drives me nuts. (which, admittedly, isn't that long of a drive :crazy: )

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Matt Miller (4) SSC Guru Points: 124210 More actions · Answer 6

The only page I get that tells me a date right now seems to imply that I'm running September 2007 locally.

Of course - when you run in "offline only" mode - you don't get the same landing page as you do under either of the other two, and that's the one and only page telling me what date the BOL is. For all I know - it's reporting the ONLINE date.

I also can find no mention anywhere in my add/remove any mention of ANY BOL update (even with the show updates checked), so it's rather hard to tell conclusively what I have locally.

I do specifically remember picking it off the list of a SQL reinstall/repatch I did a week and a half ago.

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Mark Harr SSCrazy Eights Points: 9921 More actions · Answer 7

Interesting, Matt. I just double-checked and had my Windows Update re-check, and it still does not offer September BOL. You must be one of the lucky "early adopters" 😉

Mark

Wayne West SSC-Insane Points: 22586 More actions · Answer 8

I knew I saw the BOL update somewhere this morning!

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=BE6A2C5D-00DF-4220-B133-29C1E0B6585F

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Mark Harr SSCrazy Eights Points: 9921 More actions · Answer 9

I knew I saw the BOL update somewhere this morning!

Wayne, that link points to the May 2007 update. Do you have a link to the September 2007 update?

Mark

Wayne West SSC-Insane Points: 22586 More actions · Answer 10

Mark Harr (10/15/2007)
I knew I saw the BOL update somewhere this morning!
Wayne, that link points to the May 2007 update. Do you have a link to the September 2007 update?

Interesting. This is where I started: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms166018.aspx

The page above it listed the September update, but then it said the page was last updated in August.

Perhaps some day we'll get the update!

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Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736270 More actions · Answer 11

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

from Google is the July update. Live stinks and I'm not sure why.

Still waiting to hear about Sept. I bet they haven't bundled it up, which makes no sense, but certainly they haven't gotten the updates to the web team. My contacts might be OoO today.