Hi Bob

>Were gonna have to agree to disagree on this one. I think the SQL BOL are the best development tool documentation that I have ever worked with.

We don't really disagree much :) It's certainly better than some I have seen. But, like so many documentation sets, unless you already know what you are looking for, it is hard to find things.

For example: enter "Open Transactions" in the search page and you will find that the reference to @@TRANCOUNT is item 73 in the result list. If you enter "How many open transactions" you will get half a dozen results, none of which refers to @@TRANCOUNT.

>I agree with you here. No matter how through the documentation is, most docuemtation focus on one specific item or command. I think what Jim and most of us would like to see is more of 'how' things work in the background and 'how' to perform certain meta tasks. Of course, the VFP samples and FFC go a long way to help with this.

Exactly. It is an almost impossible job and a pretty thankless task too IMO.