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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

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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 Utopolis [...]

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 for [...]