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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 [...]

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 celebrate the availability of SQL Server 2008 in the market , SQLUG.be, Microsoft and their partners decided to join effort and organize the very first Belgian SQL Server Day. SQL Server Day 2008 is the biggest event focused exclusively on SQL Server in Belgium and Luxembourg and takes place Thursday December 4th, 2008 in [...]

Session 1: what’s new in SSIS 2008 by Nico Verheire A word about our speaker:Nico Verheire is a Business Intelligence Consultant for RealDolmen. For the last 4 years, he has been working almost exclusively on SQL Server (7, 2000, 2005), with a strong focus on SSIS, SSAS and SSRS. Nico currently holds an MCTS certification [...]