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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 [...]

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 [...]

Visual StudioTeam System 2008 Database Edition by Bart Wullems The Azure Services Platform and SQL Services by Kurt Claeys Enjoy the movies!!

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]