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Full text thesaurus files bug in documentation

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I don't normally blog about documentation errors generally because they're often not that major however this one is fundamental what is being explained.

This is the page online http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7f5424a4-a72c-44dc-b455-786a12767c99.aspx It talks about creating new thesaurus files. Unfortunately the XML example is wrong. When I looked at it intially I was suprised because the diacritics element wasn't valid XML. Well looking at the examples in the <SQL install folder>/FTData/ts????.xml you can see that the example in the documentation is wrong.

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posted Saturday, September 22, 2007 11:00 PM by SimonSabin with 0 Comments

SQL 2005 install hangs on "Setting File Security"

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When doing an install of SQL 2005 you may encounter the install hanging on the "setting file security" stage.

This is due to th install trying to do some security resolution with domain controllers.

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posted Friday, June 01, 2007 4:55 PM by SimonSabin with 0 Comments

Maintenance plan warning for SP2

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Due to a regression bug introduced in SP2 some of the maintenance plan tasks that can operate on multiple databases may not perform as expected.

If a maintenance plan component uses TSQL of this nature

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posted Thursday, March 08, 2007 7:54 AM by SimonSabin with 0 Comments

SSMS Custom reports - Drill through reports

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If you intend using the new custom reports feature of Management Studio and develop a set of reports that you can navigate between then be aware of a  feature where by if you refresh a drill through report the some of the parameters are not maintained.

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posted Thursday, November 30, 2006 11:18 PM by SimonSabin with 0 Comments

SQL Server sucks - Stop complaining and do something about it

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Further to my last post about the BULK UPDATE suggestion I have made, if you have any suggestions or bugs of your own then please put them into connect.

Please also support the bugs and suggestions that others have raised. The list of non-closed bugs and suggestions can be found here.

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posted Wednesday, October 04, 2006 8:58 PM by SimonSabin with 2 Comments