n this appendix, you will learn about the materials included on the Special Edition Using Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 CD-ROM that accompanies this book. It contains applications, tools, and demonstration products. n
Following is a brief description of the products and demos from third-party vendors that you'll find on the CD-ROM.
NOTE: The products on the CD are Demos and Shareware. You may have some difficulty running them on your particular machine. If you do, feel free to contact the vendor. (They'd rather have you evaluate their product than ignore it.)
The Microsoft SQL Server FAQ is available online at the author's Web site. The questions and answers are provided from the many newsgroups and mailing lists available in support of SQL Server. Be sure to check back frequently for updates, and feel free to suggest topic areas for inclusion in future updates of the FAQ.
Special Edition Using Microsoft SQL Server 6.5 is available to you as an HTML document that can be read from any World Wide Web browser that you may have currently installed on your machine (such as Netscape Navigator or Mosaic). If you don't have a Web browser, we have included Microsoft's Internet Explorer for you.
The book can also be read on-screen as a Windows Help File.
To read the electronic book, you will need to start your Web browser and open the document file INDEX.HTM located on the \ebook subdirectory of the CD. Alternatively, you can browse the CD directory by using File Manager or Windows Explorer and double-click INDEX.HTM.
After you have opened the INDEX.HTM page, you can access all of the book's contents by clicking the highlighted chapter number or topic name. The electronic book works like any other Web page; when you click a hot link, a new page is opened or the browser will take you to the new location in the document. As you read through the electronic book, you will notice other highlighted words or phrases. Clicking these cross-references will also take you to a new location within the electronic book. You can always use your browser's forward or backward buttons to return to your original location.
If you don't have a Web browser installed on your machine, you can use Microsoft's Internet Explorer 3.0 on this CD-ROM.
Microsoft Internet Explorer can be installed from the self-extracting file in the \EXPLORER directory. Double-click the MSIE30.exe or use the Control Panel's Add/Remove Programs option and follow the instructions in the install routine. Please be aware that you must have Windows 95 or Windows NT 4.x installed on your machine to use this version of Internet Explorer. Other versions of this software can be downloaded from Microsoft's FTP site at ftp://ftp.microsoft.com.
To read the electronic book, simply use File Manager to browse to the \HELPVER subdirectory on the CD. Double-click SQLSRVR.HLP and the file will load.
This book contains code examples that include listing headers (for example, "see Listing 10.1") and the On the CD icon:
This listing indicates that this particular code snippet (or example) is included electronically on the CD. To find it, browse to the \CODE subdirectory on the CD and select the file name that matches the one referenced in the listing header (in this example, 10_01.SQL).
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