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We have something to celebrate: Community Day turns 5 years old in 2011! Community Day is back with the Fifth Edition of this annual community event on Microsoft technologies! 14 Microsoft User Groups combine their efforts to organize this unique networking and knowledge sharing event. Microsoft Community Day will take place on Thursday 23th June [...]

Dear SQLUG member, 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 [...]

Mark your calendar for the 29th of September for the “Ask The Experts” event. 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 [...]

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. [...]

Managing SQL Server requires insight in the state and performance of the underlying infrastructure, OS and individual SQL components. System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 cannot only give you that insight, but it can be reused in a broader application/service monitoring view. This session focuses on the out-of-the-box capabilities of System Center Operations Manager 2007 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]