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Welcome to the 12 hours of SQL Server 2012, the next release of the Microsoft Cloud-Ready Information Platform that is scheduled to be released in the first half of 2012. During the 12 hours of SQL Server 2012 we'll walk you through all the new innovations we're bringing to the platform, or as we call them "The Fantastic...
This session shows off the new features of Microsoft SQL Server Integration Services in SQL Server code-named “Denali”. We will highlight the migration process and the benefits of the new SSIS server architecture. We cover the many improvements made to increase developer productivity,as well as the enhancements to the...
With natural disasters like earthquakes and fires in the news so often, and the economy still struggling to stabilize, IT Professionals know that many disasters can shut down a SQL Server. Microsoft has already implemented a lot of high availability solutions in previous editions of SQL Server, like failover clustering, database...
Our next session is planned for October, 27th: "Database Mirroring, Microsoft Clustering and Virtualization" with three seasoned SQL Server professionals. Ludo Bernaerts (Belgacom), Karel Coenye (Kohera) and Peter De Seranno (bPost) will bring you 3 different types of solutions for your HA/DR plan for SQL Server 2008 (R2...
I had this weird situation for almost two days whilst debugging a stored procedure in Visual Studio 2005. Just after a few minutes, over and over again at the same line, I got an error popping up: Failed to retrieve data for this request. Lock request time out period exceeded. So obviously it had something to do with locking which...
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Up until SQL Server 2008 R2, you had to customize the font and background colors manually in SSMS. SQL Server Denali lets you import your Visual Studio settings such as the custom colors in the Text Editor. The fact that the Denali SSMS splash screen shows Powered By Visual Studio probably has a lot to do with that. In Visual Studio...
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What about some light reading on virtualizing SQL Server during the holidays whilst sipping a nice cocktail? Sure, your wife might be rolling her eyes when she sees you reading a Hyper-V whitepaper but hey, nowadays virtualized SQL Servers are everywhere so virtualization has become a technology that needs to be mastered by SQL Server...
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Yes, you read well, DAYS. SQL Server day has become a household name when you talk about SQL Server technology. And this year we go big, really big. Off course we'd like to welcome you again and hopefully snow won't be a kill-joy on this year's edition. Our team is working really hard on building the agenda so keep an...
Database mirroring was introduced since Microsoft SQL Server 2005. It can be used to design high-availability and high-performance solutions for database redundancy. It is designed to maintain a hot standby server with a transitionally consistent copy of the database. Mirroring is cost-effective, speedy, requires no special hardware...
Last thursdya we had an exilirating presentation made by Marco Russo. The slide deck is available for download here .
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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 2011 in Utopolis, Mechelen. Click here for more details...
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Imagine this, You're handed a new clean and crisp full functioning copy of a SQL Server production server VM which you can use to experiment with. Of course the clone has a new computer name. You might want to execute a select @@servername to see what the actual name is which is used by SQL Server itself. Unless the original...
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One of my colleagues today asked me why != is accepted in a query but gets automatically converted into <> when it's written using the Query Designer. I didn't have an immediate answer but found out that some of the server-specific syntax gets converted into ANSI standard syntax. Read more about the Query Designer Considerations...
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In this fast paced and ever changing world, insight in your company’s data becomes more and more crucial to stay ahead. Power users need this insight in data now, not in the next week or month. Due to this trend, BI has to evolve into a more mobile, quick and personal approach. Microsoft addresses this need for self-service...
We are very proud to announce our next event: PowerPivot / BISM and the future of a BI Solution on May 19th with Marco Russo and Alberto Ferrari The next version of Analysis Services will offer the BI Semantic Model (BISM) that is based on Vertipaq, the same engine that runs PowerPivot. DAX and PowerPivot have been created as tools...
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