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Community Day 2010

Davy — Wed, 12 May 2010 10:14:37 +0000

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. This means that most sessions will be looking at Visual Studio 2010, Silverlight 4, Office 2010, SharePoint 2010, SQL Server 2008 R2, OCSR2…

Microsoft Community Day will take place on Thursday 24th June 2010 in Utopolis, Mechelen, where we will
bring together over 300 IT Pro’s and developers.

The Microsoft Community Day 2010 is supported by:

AZUG
BESUG
BIWUG
IT-Talks
Pro-Exchange
SCUG
SQLUG
ACCB.net/VBIB
Visug
WinSec
XNA-BUG
CLUG
DotNetHub
MyTIC

Practical event details
Location: Utopolis Mechelen (Map)
Address: Spuibeekstraat 5 2800 Mechelen
Event date: Thursday June 24th
Start & end time: 8.30 – 18.30

Social
Community Day on Twitter: #comday2010

Next SQLUG event on What is System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 and how can it help in managing SQL Servers, May 20th

Davy — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:02:55 +0000

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 R2 but also shows you how a distributed application can easily reuse these capabilities to provide an extra step in monitoring.

About Ricardo Noulez
Ricardo Noulez is a Senior Consultant at Microsoft Consulting Services in the Benelux. Been with Microsoft since January 2002 as a subject matter expert in Microsoft Operations Manager (now System Center Operations Manager) and Systems Management Server (System Center Configuration Manager). Ricardo has a great focus around the System Center product family and he is currently expanding his horizons towards the System Center Service Manager product. He is always interested in finding ways to improve the way that customers manage their IT environment and has certifications and great affinity with ITIL good practices and the MOF framework to help them achieve this. In the first third of his 18 year career, Ricardo was a developer but gradually converted himself to Systems Management and IT operations. This gives him a broad understanding in the different needs and view-points of all technical players that make IT ideas come true.

Agenda:

18:00 – Registration
18:30 – Session Start
21:00 – Session End

Location:
Microsoft België
Corporate Village
Leonardo Da Vincilaan 3
1935 Zaventem

Tel: +32.2.503.31.13
Fax: +32.2.704.35.35

This Event is brought to you by Microsoft

Click here to register.

February 11th, next UG-evening on Service Broker

Davy — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:27:28 +0000

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 based system which allows for dialogs between two SQL server instances. In this session, we will first introduce the terminology and features of this framework, then we will discuss some of the scenarios in which it can be used, and we will conclude by implementing a small service broker application. Dr. Nico Jacobs was a researcher at the Computer Science department, KULeuven for seven years, where he obtained his PhD in machine learning (data mining). Since 2004, he is trainer and consultant at U2U, where he focuses primarily on SQL Server and the Business Intelligence back-end.

Free registration is now open.

SQL Server Day 2009 videos now available on Chopsticks

Davy — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:10:05 +0000

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 by Patrick Tack
How New.NET Development technologies could change the live of the SQL DBA guy/girl by Gill Cleeren & Kurt Claeys
Implementing best practices with Policy Based Management by Nico Jacobs
Introducing to PowerPivot or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Excel by Chris Webb
Tracking Changes and Data movement in SQL Server 2008 by Dirk Gubbels
Handling XML in SQL Server by Nico Jacobs

Have fun!

SQL Server Day 2009

Davy — Wed, 14 Oct 2009 14:45:56 +0000

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 200 attendees.

The event will kick-off with an international speaker positioning the SQL Server data platform, today and tomorrow.

We have 6 break-out sessions with technical content on SQL Server. The speakers are recognized international SQL Server experts; including Dirk Gubbels, Chris Webb, Henk van der Valk, …

During the lunch break our gold partners will present their solutions and offerings in the lightning sessions.

We conclude the day with a closing keynote on Gemini, the new breakthrough Self-Service Business Intelligence (BI) capabilities being delivered in SQL Server 2008 R2.

Full details and registration are available on www.sqlserverday.be

Next SQLUG event: Zero-Downtime upgrade from SQL Server 2005 by Dirk Gubbels – Sep 24th, 2009

Davy — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 07:37:31 +0000

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 Server since version 4.2.

As one of the few Microsoft Certified Database Architects he has been involved in the most demanding SQL server based applications in Belgium and all over the EMEA region.

His main focus areas are Design, Performance and Availability for both OLTP and Business Intelligence environments.

Upgrading from SQL Server 2005 to 2008 may look very easy and straightforward, but there are always risks involved.

The goal of this session is to identify these risks, and show proven ways to mitigate these, or reduce the impact.

The second part of the session will show some techniques for minimizing downtime during the upgrade, to a point where the application can remain online.

This session will focus on the upgrade process for the Database engine, not on the differences between the versions, or the upgrade process of other SQL Server components.

This event is brought to you by Microsoft

Recordings of last event available on Chopsticks

Davy — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:41:00 +0000

Enjoy the movies!!

Community Day 2009

Davy — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:41:00 +0000

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 sharing
event. A unique opportunity to learn about Microsoft’s latest developments and technologies like Exchange
2010, Silverlight 3, Visual Studio 2010, SQL Server 2008, Windows 2008R2, Powershell V2, Forefront
Identity Manager 2010, XNA 3.1. and OCS R2.

Microsoft Community Day will take place on Thursday 25th June 2009 in Utopolis, Mechelen, where we will
bring together 300 IT Pro’s and developers.

The Microsoft Community Day 2009 is supported by BESUG, BIWUG, IT-Talks, MVUG, Pro-Exchange, SCUG, SQLUG, VBIB, Visug, WinSec, XNA-BUG“

Next SQLUG-event: Business Intelligence in a SAAS (software as a service) Environment – April 29th, 2009

Davy — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 21:40:00 +0000

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 Case
2. The Functional and Technical Architecture
3. Near-realtime BI
4. The Real world

About the speakers

Oscar Zonneveld is a BI and Datawarehouse Architect at Info Support’s Business Intelligence en Datawarehousing Competence Centre.
Josquin Booij is a Database Architect at Info Support’s Business Intelligence en Datawarehousing Competence Centre.

They have a combined experience spanning in excess of 10 years within the Financial, HRM, Healthcare and Indutrial sectors.

Right now they are implementing a near-realtime solution in a SAAS within the HRM Industry.

The session will take place in the offices of InfoSupport in Mechelen.

Schedule:

18u00	Registration and welcome
18u30	Session start
21u30	Session end

This is a free event, but registration is required.

Next UG-evening – The Holy Trinity: Indexes, Execution Plans and the optimizer

Davy — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 22:36:00 +0000

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 correct this. Another part of the session will be some advanced features of indexing like partitioning, locking and filtered indexes. We will of course not forget indexed views and computed column indexes. If there is some time left we can also look at spatial indexes and xml indexes

Marc Mertens is trainer at Global Knowledge .

Agenda:
18:00 – 18:30 Registration and welcome with a drink & sandwich
18:30 – 20:00 Part 1 of the session
20:00 – 20:30 pause
20:30 – 22:00 Part 2 of the session
22:00 – … Networking with your peers
This event is sponsored by and takes place in the offices of Global Knowledge in Mechelen. We want to remind that registration is obligatory. You can register here.

Looking forward to see you on January 29^th