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Next UG event: "Ask The Experts" - 29th of September

Steve — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 17:53:00 GMT

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 as many questions as possible within the available timeframe.

About The Panel

Wesley Backelant
In his role as a Technology Advisor at Microsoft, Wesley is responsible for helping customers understand the capabilities of SQL Server and the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack. Before joining Microsoft, Wesley was a Database Architect working on some of the largest implementations of SQL Server in Belgium. Wesley started his professional career in the SQL Server 6.5 timeframe and remained true to his passion ever since. Wesley is active on Twitter where he handles topics related to his favorite technology.

Frederik Vandeputte
Frederik Vandeputte is a Senior Consultant and partner at Kohera, the Microsoft SQL Server/Business Intelligence Competence Center of the Cronos Group. Frederik has been working with SQL Server since version 6.5. In his free time Frederik collects Microsoft certifications. His collection includes MCTS, MCSA, MCSE, MCDBA, MCITP, MCT, ranging from Windows 2000 and SQL Server 2000 up to SQL Server 2008. Frederik is one of the co-founders and the President of the Belgian SQL Server User Group (SQLUG.BE). In January 2008 Frederik, became the first Belgian MVP on SQL Server. Follow Frederik on his website and twitter.

Dirk Gubbels
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

Gunther Beersaerts
Gunther Beersaerts joined Microsoft in 1998 (on the launch day of SQL Server 7.0) as a Technical Marketer for MSDN/TechNet road shows and has held a number of technical roles during his career, including Systems Engineer, ATS, TSP roles covering a broad set of Microsoft Application Platform solutions. Over the past few years, Gunther has been active in technical roles for Databases and Business Intelligence platforms in EPG Belgium & Luxemburg. He then became a Strategist in the CATM (Customer Advocacy and Technology Management) organization which is a key-connection between the Microsoft Development teams and Customers /Partners. In this role, Gunther focuses on the Microsoft Data Platform, including SQL Server and Business Intelligence solutions. Prior to Microsoft, he was a developer and messaging engineer at a large financial institution in Brussels.

Agenda:

19:00	Registration
19:30	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

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Get a 200$ discount for SQL Pass Summit in Seattle

Frederik — Fri, 13 Aug 2010 07:48:00 GMT

This years SQL PASS Summit 2010 will take place on November 8 - 11, 2010 in Seattle. The SQL PASS Summit is the largest SQL Conference in the world with

Over 160 technical sessions from the world's top SQL Server and BI experts
2 full days of deep-dive Pre- and Post-Conference Seminars
Networking with thousands of SQL Server MVPs, experts, Microsoft employees, and peers
Face-to-face support with the Microsoft CSS and SQLCAT teams
Ask the Experts Lounge
And much more!

SQLUG.be members receive an additional 200$ discount by entering the promo code CHM10 and choosing "Belgian SQL Server User Group (SQLUG.be) in the Chapter drop-down box.

Get a 20% discount for the SQLBits Conference in England

Frederik — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 15:04:00 GMT

Our friends in the UK are organising SQLBits - The 7 Wonders of SQL conference, which will be taking place from September 30th to October 2nd at York University. SQLBits is the largest SQL Server conference in Europe and the previous six conferences have established it as a must-attend event for DBAs, developers and BI professionals who work with Microsoft SQL Server in the UK and Europe.

This time SQLBits will be running the three day format that was so successful in South Wales last year. Day one will be a training day, featuring in-depth full day seminars by leading SQL Server professionals; day two will be a deep-dive conference day with advanced sessions delivered by the best speakers from the SQL Server community; and day three will be the traditional SQLBits community conference day, with a wide range of sessions covered all aspects of SQL Server at all levels of ability.

There will be a charge to attend days one and two, but day three, the Saturday, will as usual be completely free to attend allowing those without any budget still to be able to attend and experience a great day of training.

SQLUG.BE members receive a 20% discount on the event. Just use the promotion code BE20 during the registration process.

SQL Server Jobs at Kohera

Frederik — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 07:07:00 GMT

Our Gold Partner Kohea is looking for a SQL Server DBA and a MS Business Intelligence Constultant. Please have a look at our job section for more details.

Slide Deck SQLUG Event System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2

karim — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 08:01:00 GMT

The slides from System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 event on the 20th of May are available for download.

Practical SQL Server 2008 for the Oracle DBA - Online Seminar

Frederik — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 07:24:00 GMT

This 2 day Online Seminar is to help Oracle database administrators (DBAs) leverage their skills and experience as an Oracle DBA to manage a SQL Server system. This seminar will provide a quick start for the Oracle DBA to map, compare and contrast the realm of Oracle database management to SQL Server database management.

June 21 – 22 9-5pm Australia (East)
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032454218&Culture=en-US

June 23 – 24 9-5pm Paris
https://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032454219&Culture=en-US

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

Frederik — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 14:04:00 GMT

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

SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM

Frederik — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:04:00 GMT

Today Microsoft released the RTM version of SQL Server 2008 R2. The trial version is available on the following URL http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=54ad6107-c552-4d47-b1a1-3f66460f71a9.

More related downloads can be found via Download Center: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/results.aspx?freetext=sql+server+2008+R2&displaylang=en&stype=s_basic

Happy downloading!

Get a 10% discount on SQL Server training at Global Knowledge

Frederik — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 07:44:00 GMT

Global Knowledge offers SQLUG.be members a 10% discount on selected SQL Server courses.

Code	Description	Date	List Price	SQL UG Price
M2778	Writing Queries using SQL Server 2008	26/05	€1.200,-	€1.080,-
M6231	Maintaining a SQL Server 2008 database	28/06	€ 1.750,-	€ 1.575,-
M6232	Implementing a SQL Server 2008 database	07/06	€ 1.750,-	€ 1.575,-
M6234	Implement & Maintain SQL Server 2008 Analysis Services	15/06	€ 1.200,-	€1.080,-
M6235	Implement & Maintain SQL Server 2008 Integration Services	03/05	€ 1.200,-	€1.080,-
M6236	Implement & Maintain SQL Server 2008 Reporting	10/05	€ 800,-	€720,-
GK7004	Business Intelligence with SQL Server (combo 6234,-35,-36)	21/06	€1.750,-	€1.575,-

EXCLUSIVE at Global Knowledge: Prepare for SQL 2008 R2: First Look – Breakfast sessions:
Find out what’s new in this short product update: SQL SERVER 2008 R2 – What’s New?

Dates: Thursday 6 May or Tuesday 11 May
Hours: 8h30 – 11h00
Speaker: MTC – Marc Mertens
Price: €99,-*

*When you book a training at Global Knowledge this amount will be deducted of the price!

Slide deck SQLUG event Resource Governor

Steve — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 18:21:00 GMT

The slides from the Resource Governor event on the 8th of april are available for download.

Community Day 2010

Frederik — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 19:18:00 GMT

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
MVUG
Pro-Exchange
SCUG
SQLUG
VBIB
Visug
WinSec
XNA-BUG
CLUG
DotNetHub

Practical event details
Location: Utopolis Mechelen (Map)
Address: Spuibeekstraat 5 2800 Mechelen
Event date: Thursday June 24th
Start & end time: 9.00 -18.30

Social
Community Day on Twitter: #comday2010

The is a free event but registration is required through http://www.communityday.be.

Wanted - your input on Web Administration of SQL Server and SQL Azure

Frederik — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 18:00:00 GMT

The SQL Server product team is thinking about Web Administration of SQL Server and SQL Azure, and is looking for customer input/feedback.

Please take a short survey @ http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/978R8TB on this subject.

Free tickets for Star Wars in Concert

Frederik — Mon, 29 Mar 2010 08:47:00 GMT

We have 10 free tickets for Star Wars in Concert for tomorrow night @ Sportpaleis Antwerp.

Visit us tomorrow at our booth on the Techdays and mention the magic word SQL Server 2008 R2 D2.

Chalk Talk sessions on the Belgian Techdays

Frederik — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 07:45:00 GMT

We are happy to announce that a number of IT-Pro community groups are joining forces this year to bring you two highly interactive Chalk Talk sessions on the Belgian Techdays.

The concept is very simple, If you have that one question you have been dying to ask a leading technology expert, this is your chance.

Bring your question and join a panel of MVP’s and tech experts during the lunch breaks 31-03 Room2 and 1-04 Expo area. Pose your question live and see how the panel thinks and analyses your problem from there expertise and where possible formulate answers or research options to help you solve your problem.

Looking forward meeting you on the Techdays!

Next SQLUG evening event on Resource Governor, April 8th

Frederik — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 08:57:00 GMT

Resource Governor is a new technology in SQL Server 2008 that enables you to manage SQL Server workload and resources by specifying limits on resource consumption by incoming request. In this session you will learn how to define a classifier function, to sort your request in resource groups, that will be assigned to resource pools dividing up your CPU and memory resources. Monitoring of resources used by the resource groups is also covered. If you ever have to full fill service level agreements based on the performance of your queries then this is the session for you.

About the speaker
Marc Mertens is a SQL Server and .NET trainer/consultant voor Global Knowledge. He has been working with SQL server from version 4.x up to the current version. His Microsoft Certifications are MSCA, MSCE, MCDBA, MCAD,MCSD and MCT. He has been a trainer for every aspect of SQL server, from building .net applications using ADO.NET and LINQ to BI solutions.

Agenda:

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

Location:
Global Knowledge Belgium
Industriepark Mechelen Noord II
Zandvoortstraat 1
2800 Mechelen
Tel.: 015/27.65.35
Fax: 015/20.49.50

This Event is brought to you by Globalknowledge

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