Davy's Blog

We are happy to announce the second event of 2011, SQL Server Locking: Take back control of SQL Server brought to you by Marc Mertens. Since the beginning of RDBMS systems locking control has been taken away from the programmer. SQL Server has however many ways to let you control the locks placed and their [...]

For the third successive year the Belgian SQL Server User Group (SQLUG.BE vzw) and Microsoft are teaming up to organize the yearly Belgian SQL Server Day. After the successful event of last year, SQL Server Day 2010 will again be the biggest event focused exclusively on SQL Server in Belgium and Luxembourg.  Join us for [...]

Installing the report server in SharePoint integrated mode, really gives you the possibility to offer a great reporting frontend to your users. But a few days ago I came across a real nasty bug: I just tried to rename one of the reports, what should be an easy thing to do, but I got this [...]

We are very proud to announce you that, because of the huge success and because of the numerous registrations, we’ve added an additional track to our agenda, which makes SQL Server Day 2009 an entire day, jam-packed with technical sessions spread over 3 tracks, namely Business Intelligence, the SQL Data Platform and Development. 6 break-out [...]

After installing SQL Server Integration Services on an existing 64-bit SQL Server, I was unable to connect to SSIS using Management Studio. The database engine and Analysis Services was already installed on this server. I added the SSIS service without Service Pack and applied SP3 afterwards. When trying to connect, Management Studio returned the following [...]