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Events/Webcasts
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Documents
SQL 2008
Microsoft SQL Server Protocol Documentation
The Microsoft SQL Server protocol documentation provides technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols that are implemented and used in Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=91ef5106-944a-41e1-b3a0-5bd3f2356f32
New KB's
Other
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Standard Edition: PRB: Setup on Windows 2000 Fails Through Terminal Client
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/246694/en-US
Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 Standard Edition: PRB: Transfer of Data from Jet 4.0LEDB Source Fails with Buffer Overflow Error
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/281517/en-US
SQL 2005
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Standard Edition: BUG: The full-text crawl takes a long time to finish when you create a full-text index on a column that has the varchar data type in SQL Server 2005
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/937086/en-US
SQL 2008
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services: SQL Server Installation Center may display English content on a localized version of SQL Server after applying a cumulative update
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2496344/en-US
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1: FIX: "Could not open global shared memory to communicate with performance DLL" warning when you run an SSIS 2008 or SSIS 2008 R2 package on a computer that is running Windows XP
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2496375/en-US
SQL 2008 R2
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Datacenter: A drop-down list is always displayed instead of a search box when you double-click the value of the filter criteria box for an attribute in Entities Explorer of the SQL Server 2008 R2 MDS website
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2486113/en-US
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Developer: FIX: SQL Server 2008 R2 performs poorly when most threads wait for the CMEMTHREAD wait type if the threads use table variables or temp tables to load or update rowsets
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2492381/en-US
Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Developer: Support policy for untested .NET Framework assemblies in the SQL Server CLR-hosted environment