Books Online
- Books Online - the complete documentation set for SQL Server 2005
- 913392 - Error message when you open SQL Server 2005 Books Online: "Microsoft Document Explorer cannot be shown because the specified help collection 'ms-help://MS.SQLCC.v9' is invalid"
- Download the latest version of Books Online
- Try out the new Books Online scoped search functionality
Upgrading tools and information
A fresh installation, followed by a transfer of your databases is the recommended way of upgrading
your SQL server installation. If that is not an option, you can perform an in-place upgrade.
SQL 2008
SQL 2005
SQL 2008
- 958186 - Cumulative update package 2 for SQL Server 2008
- 956909 - The SQL Server 2008 builds that were released after SQL Server 2008 was released
SQL 2005
General info, system requirements, supported configurations
- 935897 - An Incremental Servicing Model is available from the SQL Server team to deliver hotfixes for reported problems
- Hardware and Software Requirements for Installing SQL Server 2005
- 956893 - Support policy for Microsoft SQL Server products that are running on a virtual machine in a Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V environment
- 822400 - Description of disaster recovery options for Microsoft SQL Server
- 327518 - The Microsoft SQL Server support policy for Microsoft Clustering
- 254321 - Clustered SQL Server do's, don'ts, and basic warnings
- 835185 - Failover cluster resource dependencies in SQL Server
- 945936 - The DHCP support is not available when you install SQL Server 2005 on a Windows Server 2008 failover cluster
- 942176 - Description of the SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) service and of alternatives to clustering the SSIS service
- 819546 - SQL Server 2000 and SQL Server 2005 support for mounted volumes
- 922664 - SQL Server is not supported on Intel-based Apple Macintosh computers that run a Windows operating system
- 906649 - Unsupported tuning options for some editions of SQL Server 2000 and of SQL Server 2005
- 329526 - File allocation extension in SQL Server 2000 (64-bit) and SQL Server 2005
- 926930 - Hard disk drive sector-size support boundaries in SQL Server 2005
- 304261 - Description of support for network database files in SQL Server
- 919023 - SQL Server 2005 connectivity and Volume Shadow Copy Service (VSS)
- 907741 - Issues to consider when you use the database mirroring feature in SQL Server 2005
- 926150 - Using database mirroring for cross-database transactions or distributed transactions is not supported in SQL Server 2005
- 910716 - Requirements for SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2000 to support remote mirroring of user databases
- 907557 - The supported Windows account types that you can use to run the SQL Server Agent service in SQL Server 2005
- 910378 - Scalable shared databases are supported by SQL Server 2005
- 905006 - Description of the type mapping of the new SQL Server 2005 data types in the OLE DB Provider for SQL Server (SQLOLEDB) and SQL Native Client
- 944837 - Description of the Replay Markup Language (RML) Utilities for SQL Server
- 909392 - OLAP assemblies and binary files that Microsoft supports for programmability in SQL Server Analysis Services 2005
- 956208 - Description of cross-version compatibility scenarios for merge replication in SQL Server Compact 3.5
- 956601 - Description of the blocking monitor thread in SQL Server 2005
- 309422 - Guidelines for choosing antivirus software to run on the computers that are running SQL Server
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