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Microsoft SQL Server Protocols

The Microsoft SQL Server protocols documentation provides detailed technical specifications for Microsoft proprietary protocols (including extensions to industry-standard or other published protocols) that are used by Microsoft SQL Server 2005 (namely Microsoft SQL Server 2005 with Service Pack 2 applied) to communicate with Microsoft Office 2007 and Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies (namely Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with Service Pack 1 applied and Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 with Service Pack 1 applied).

The documentation is designed to describe each protocol in detail as it is used by Microsoft SQL Server 2005. Each protocol specification documents the technical requirements, limitations, dependencies, and Microsoft-specific protocol behavior.

The documentation also includes a set of companion overview and reference documents that supplement the technical specifications with conceptual background, overviews of inter-protocol relationships and interactions, and technical reference information.

The documentation contains:

  • Overview documents

  • Protocols for Microsoft SQL Server

  • Reference documents

In addition to being available on this Web site, the Microsoft SQL Server protocols documentation is also available as a download package in .zip file format:

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