|  | Posted by Steve Kass on 06/11/57 11:56 
I'm not sure this kind of thing is going to show up in a typicalbook. Depending on what you do in 2000 that needs to be done in
 2005, monitoring this newsgroup and the .tools and .programming
 ones within microsoft.public.sqlserver.* hierarchy isn't a bad
 start. There may be good books out for what you want, too - browse
 around.
 
 SK
 
 mollyf@hotmail.com wrote:
 
 > Erland Sommarskog wrote:
 > <snip>
 > In SQL Server 2000, I could generate scripts in Enterprise Manager and
 > then open them up in Textpad or Notepad and make changes if I needed
 > to, then go and open the file in Query Analzyer and run it without a
 > problem--having to deal with Unicode was never an issue.  I should have
 > phrased my question better to make it more along the lines of why
 > Microsoft changed the default setting, etc. the way that they did.
 > I'll resist answering my question with a sarcastic answer:-)
 >
 > What books would you recommend for someone transitioning from 2000 to
 > 2005?  Back in 2000, I bought the book "Professional SQL Server 7.0
 > Programming" by Rob Vieira and used that to teach myself SQL Server 7
 > (I had never used it before prior to the year 2000 and never took a
 > training class for it) and that book has been a great reference book
 > through the years for my coworkers and me but from looking at Amazon,
 > the 2005 version of his book won't be released until November and I'm
 > needing to learn about the differences now.  Not only with programming
 > but with some of the DBA tasks (I'm not a DBA but I do some of the DBA
 > stuff).  Preferably a book not released by Microsoft Press:-)
 >
 > Thanks.
 >
 > Molly J. Fagan
 >
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