We are happy to announce our first user group session of 2011…CSI style!

Tom Van Zele will bring us SQL Server Forensic Analysis – Playing CSI with databases.

You get a call from a colleague who thinks that his financial information system has been hacked. Of course this system uses a SQL Server Database back-end. In this session we’ll uncover the basics of digital forensics: how to find out whether the system has been accessed by the intruder? What data has been accessed? Was there anything modified? We’ll learn on how to find evidence of what happened and also on how to create a report that can be served as evidence in a court of law.

About Tom Van Zele

Tom is a seasoned IT professional with more than 10 years experience, first in large scale Active Directory implementations, later moving on to SQL Server. His focus lies on infrastructure & security. You can follow Tom on his blog www.synsol.eu/blog and Twitter @tvanzele

When

February, 28th

Agenda
18:00 Registration
18:30 Session Start
21:00 Session End
Location

Microsoft België
Corporate Village
Leonardo Da Vincilaan 3
1935 Zaventem

Click here to register

Hope to see you at the event!
The SQLUG Team

SQLUG teams up again with Microsoft to organize this panel of hardcore SQL Server experts with Wesley Backelant(MSFT), Frederik Vandeputte(MVP), Dirk Gubbels(MSFT) and Gunther Beersaerts(MSFT).

Starts: 19:00
Location: Microsoft België

Send your SQL Server related questions to asktheexperts@sqlug.be.

We will answer as many questions as possible within the available timeframe.

About The Panel

Wesley Backelant
In his role as a Technology Advisor at Microsoft, Wesley is responsible for helping customers understand the capabilities of SQL Server and the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack. Before joining Microsoft, Wesley was a Database Architect working on some of the largest implementations of SQL Server in Belgium. Wesley started his professional career in the SQL Server 6.5 timeframe and remained true to his passion ever since. Wesley is active on Twitter where he handles topics related to his favorite technology.

Frederik Vandeputte
Frederik Vandeputte is a Senior Consultant and partner at Kohera, the Microsoft SQL Server/Business Intelligence Competence Center of the Cronos Group. Frederik has been working with SQL Server since version 6.5. In his free time Frederik collects Microsoft certifications. His collection includes MCTS, MCSA, MCSE, MCDBA, MCITP, MCT, ranging from Windows 2000 and SQL Server 2000 up to SQL Server 2008. Frederik is one of the co-founders and the President of the Belgian SQL Server User Group (SQLUG.BE). In January 2008 Frederik, became the first Belgian MVP on SQL Server. Follow Frederik on his website and twitter.

Dirk Gubbels
Dirk Gubbels is a senior consultant at Microsoft, and has been working with SQL Server since version 4.2. As one of the few Microsoft Certified Database Architects he has been involved in the most demanding SQL server based applications in Belgium and all over the EMEA region. His main focus areas are Design, Performance and Availability for both OLTP and Business Intelligence environments

Gunther Beersaerts
Gunther Beersaerts joined Microsoft in 1998 (on the launch day of SQL Server 7.0) as a Technical Marketer for MSDN/TechNet road shows and has held a number of technical roles during his career, including Systems Engineer, ATS, TSP roles covering a broad set of Microsoft Application Platform solutions. Over the past few years, Gunther has been active in technical roles for Databases and Business Intelligence platforms in EPG Belgium & Luxemburg. He then became a Strategist in the CATM (Customer Advocacy and Technology Management) organization which is a key-connection between the Microsoft Development teams and Customers /Partners. In this role, Gunther focuses on the Microsoft Data Platform, including SQL Server and Business Intelligence solutions. Prior to Microsoft, he was a developer and messaging engineer at a large financial institution in Brussels.

Agenda:

Location:
Microsoft België
Corporate Village
Leonardo Da Vincilaan 3
1935 Zaventem

Tel: +32.2.503.31.13
Fax: +32.2.704.35.35

This Event is brought to you by Microsoft

Click here to register

Community Day is back with the Fourth Edition of this annual community event on Microsoft technologies!

Fourteen Microsoft User Groups combine their efforts to organize this unique networking and knowledge sharing
event. With so many new releases from Microsoft, the theme of Community Day 2010 is of course 2010: a new wave of products and technologies. This means that most sessions will be looking at Visual Studio 2010, Silverlight 4, Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, SQL Server 2008 R2, OCSR2…

Microsoft Community Day will take place on Thursday 24th June 2010 in Utopolis, Mechelen, where we will
bring together over 300 IT Pro’s and developers.

The Microsoft Community Day 2010 is supported by:

• AZUG
• BESUG
• BIWUG
• IT-Talks
• Pro-Exchange
• SCUG
• SQLUG
• ACCB.net/VBIB
• Visug
• WinSec
• XNA-BUG
• CLUG
• DotNetHub
• MyTIC

Practical event details
Location: Utopolis Mechelen (Map)
Address: Spuibeekstraat 5 2800 Mechelen
Event date: Thursday June 24th
Start & end time: 8.30 – 18.30

Social
Community Day on Twitter: #comday2010

This session focuses on the out-of-the-box capabilities of System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 but also shows you how a distributed application can easily reuse these capabilities to provide an extra step in monitoring.

About Ricardo Noulez
Ricardo Noulez is a Senior Consultant at Microsoft Consulting Services in the Benelux. Been with Microsoft since January 2002 as a subject matter expert in Microsoft Operations Manager (now System Center Operations Manager) and Systems Management Server (System Center Configuration Manager). Ricardo has a great focus around the System Center product family and he is currently expanding his horizons towards the System Center Service Manager product. He is always interested in finding ways to improve the way that customers manage their IT environment and has certifications and great affinity with ITIL good practices and the MOF framework to help them achieve this. In the first third of his 18 year career, Ricardo was a developer but gradually converted himself to Systems Management and IT operations. This gives him a broad understanding in the different needs and view-points of all technical players that make IT ideas come true.

Agenda:

• 18:00 – Registration
• 18:30 – Session Start
• 21:00 – Session End

Location:
Microsoft België
Corporate Village
Leonardo Da Vincilaan 3
1935 Zaventem

Tel: +32.2.503.31.13
Fax: +32.2.704.35.35

This Event is brought to you by Microsoft

Click here to register.

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 Server technical education and business networking. Meet top SQL Server experts from Europe and around the world. Learn about best practices, effective troubleshooting, how to prevent issues, save money, and build a better SQL Server environment for your company or clients.

• 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 by Patrick Tack
• How New.NET Development technologies could change the live of the SQL DBA guy/girl by Gill Cleeren & Kurt Claeys
• Implementing best practices with Policy Based Management by Nico Jacobs
• Introducing to PowerPivot or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Excel by Chris Webb
• Tracking Changes and Data movement in SQL Server 2008 by Dirk Gubbels
• Handling XML in SQL Server by Nico Jacobs

Have fun!

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 200 attendees.

The event will kick-off with an international speaker positioning the SQL Server data platform, today and tomorrow.

We have 6 break-out sessions with technical content on SQL Server. The speakers are recognized international SQL Server experts; including Dirk Gubbels, Chris Webb, Henk van der Valk, …

During the lunch break our gold partners will present their solutions and offerings in the lightning sessions.

We conclude the day with a closing keynote on Gemini, the new breakthrough Self-Service Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities being delivered in SQL Server 2008 R2.

Full details and registration are available on www.sqlserverday.be