Davy's Blog

The Belgian SQL Server User Group offers a significant 35% discount for its members (even more than early bird discount) for any PASS European Conference 2010 registration. Use discount code BEC15Y and enjoy your savings on your registration. For more information check our SQLUG website. PASS European Conference 2010 is Europe’s premier conference for SQL [...]

SQL Server Service Broker and some of the things it can do for you” is brought to you by Nico Jacobs and will take place on February 11th. Since SQL server 2005, it is possible to build a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) inside SQL Server.
The component that enables this is the service broker, a message [...]

Microsoft has made the sessions presented on SQL Server Day 2009 available on Chopsticks

Opening Keynote by Wesley Backelant and Ritchie Houtmeyers
Best Practices for SQL Server Consolidation by Tom Van Mulders
Breaking the ETL world record with Integration Services by Henk van der Valk
Designing Effective Aggregations in Analysyis Services 2008 by Chris Webb
High availability for BI DWH [...]

On Thursday, the 3rd of December 2009 SQLUG.BE (The Belgian SQL Server User Group) and Microsoft are teaming up to organize the second Belgian SQL Server Day. Focus of the day is off course SQL Server.
Last year, SQL Server Day 2008 was the biggest community driven SQL Server event in the Benelux, with more than [...]

On September 24th, we kick off a new year of SQLUG events.
To be sure we kick-off properly, we hired a top-speaker, namely Dirk Gubbels. Dirk is one of our best guest speakers and by far one of the best SQL Server professionals.
Dirk Gubbels is a senior consultant at Microsoft, and has been working with SQL [...]

Visual StudioTeam System 2008 Database Edition by Bart Wullems
The Azure Services Platform and SQL Services by Kurt Claeys

Enjoy the movies!!

Community Day is back again, are you ready for our Third Edition of Microsoft Community Day?
Eleven Microsoft User Groups combine their efforts to organize this unique networking and knowledge sharingevent. A unique opportunity to learn about Microsoft’s latest developments and technologies like Exchange2010, Silverlight 3, Visual Studio 2010, SQL Server 2008, Windows 2008R2, Powershell V2, [...]

This event is brought to you by InfoSupport and handles the implementation of BI within a SAAS concept.
Agenda Oscar Zonneveldand and Josquin Booij from InfoSupport will discuss the following topics:

1. The Business Case2. The Functional and Technical Architecture3. Near-realtime BI4. The Real world
About the speakers
Oscar Zonneveld is a BI and Datawarehouse Architect at Info Support’s [...]

Dear readers, I’m proud to announce officially Community Day 2009, the third edition of a full day of community driven content on Microsoft technologies. The event will take place on Thursday June 25th 2009.
For the first time, the event will be a full day of free sessions. Also new is the location: we have moved [...]

Next UG-evening – The Holy Trinity: Indexes, Execution Plans and the optimizer
This UG-evening will start with an introduction of the basics of index design (the heap,clustered/non clustered indexes and covering of a query by an index). Later we will discuss how the optimizer works, why it can be wrong (statistics, procedure cache) and how to [...]