SQL Server 2008 R2 Books Online

Download the release version of the documentation and tutorials for Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2.

Books Online is the primary documentation for SQL Server.

Important Installing SQL Server 2008 R2 Books Online upgrades your existing SQL Server 2008 version of Books Online. If you upgrade, be aware that the content and help topics now describe tools and features of SQL Server 2008 R2. To reinstall SQL Server 2008 Books Online, you must first uninstall SQL Server 2008 R2 Books Online. Because SQL Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 R2 share components, you cannot have side-by-side installations of Books Online on the same machine.

Books Online includes the following types of information:

• Setup and upgrade instructions.
• Information about new features and backward compatibility.
• Conceptual descriptions of the technologies and features in SQL Server.
• Procedural topics describing how to use the various features in SQL Server.
• Tutorials that guide you through common tasks.
• Reference documentation for the graphical tools, command prompt utilities, programming languages, and application programming interfaces (APIs) that are supported by SQL Server.
• Descriptions of the sample databases and applications that are available with SQL Server.

 

Download here.

(Download Size: 183.1 MB )

Free Microsoft Press ebook: Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2

Microsoft Press has published another free ebook:

Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2, by Ross Mistry and Stacia Misner 

The book contains 10 chapters and 216 pages, like so:

PART I   Database Administration

CHAPTER 1   SQL Server 2008 R2 Editions and Enhancements 3
CHAPTER 2   Multi-Server Administration 21
CHAPTER 3   Data-Tier Applications 41
CHAPTER 4   High Availability and Virtualization Enhancements 63
CHAPTER 5   Consolidation and Monitoring 85

PART II   Business Intelligence Development

CHAPTER 6   Scalable Data Warehousing 109
CHAPTER 7   Master Data Services 125
CHAPTER 8   Complex Event Processing with StreamInsight 145
CHAPTER 9   Reporting Services Enhancements 165
CHAPTER 10   Self-Service Analysis with PowerPivot 189

You can download the ebook in XPS format here (17.8 MB) and in PDF format here (7.75 MB) .

 

For more details please check : Microsoft Press Blog

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