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SQLUG.BE - next UG event: The Holy Trinity for SQL Server DBAs

The Belgian SQL Server User Group is organizing another interesting evening full of technical...

Date: 01/12/2009

Kimball University: Microsoft SQL Server Comes of Age for Data Warehousing

  Just bumped into this article in Intelligent Enterprise - June 23, 2008 Impressive to see the...

Date: 06/26/2008

SQL Server now with a logo !!!

For many years, SQL Server was a product / platform with no logo. At TechEd US we finally revealed...

Date: 06/05/2008

Rafal Lukawiecki- Data Mining and Business Intelligence for Enterprises on TechNet Spotlight

I've always had a passion for Data Mining... simply because I didn't understand what it's all about...

Date: 06/02/2008

What's up with those SQL Injection Attacks lately ?

As you might have seen in the news, there have been ongoing SQL injection attacks against vulnerable...

Date: 06/02/2008

SQL User Group evening : "Managing, monitoring and troubleshooting SQL Server using Free tools"

Woohoo! The guys from the SQL User Group keep going strong. I'm very pleased that our very own Dirk...

Date: 04/25/2008

SQLUG.be : Reporting Services by Marc Mertens

On Thu Nov 22 the Belgian SQL Server User Group (SQLUG.be) will deliver a SQL Server Reporting...

Date: 10/23/2007

JDBC Driver 1.2 CTP August 2007

Good news for all the J2 App Server fanatics! :-) We've just released a new Java Database...

Date: 09/05/2007

SQL User Group event : Secrets of Fast Detection and Recovery from Database Corruptions by Paul Randal

On Thu May 24, Paul Randal, Lead Program Manager in the SQL Server Storage Engine team will host a...

Date: 04/26/2007

SQL Express : How to detect if Express is installed?

I recently stumbled across this question from a customer : how can you detect if SQL Express is...

Date: 01/23/2007

Microsoft ProClarity Analytics Platform 6.3 (English) releases to manufactoring !

Microsoft ProClarity Analytics Server 6.3 (English) and Microsoft ProClarity Desktop Professional...

Date: 01/22/2007

VSDBPro Codeplex samples project goes live

If you are looking for samples or want to collaborate on Visual Studio Team Edition for Database...

Date: 01/04/2007

How does Windows Live Messenger actually work?

An interesting post from the MSBLOG.org sources explaining how Windows Live (MSN) Messenger actually...

Date: 12/28/2006

TechEd: Developers - Good times to be a SQL Developer

Folks, these are good times to be a SQL Developer! Over the next few days more than 3500 developers...

Date: 11/02/2006

TechEd: Developers - SQL Server - Draft Session Update

So here we are, star date August 11th 2006 Still 4 months to go until TechEd Europe. But only 1...

Date: 08/11/2006

TechEd: Developers - SQL Server - First list of draft sessions

Ok, so here's a first draft of some of the SQL Server sessions that we are planning for TechEd:...

Date: 05/17/2006

TechEd 2006 Europe : Feedback & Suggestion request SQL Server Track

As you might know by now, TechEd Europe 2006 will be split in 2 events: TechEd: Developers TechEd:...

Date: 05/17/2006

LINQ CTP - May 2006

On May 10th, the VB and C# teams issued an integrated CTP release of the Language Integrated Query...

Date: 05/17/2006

Microsoft Expression Web Designer CTP1 released !

So yes! We released the first CTP of Microsoft Expression Web Designer on Monday. Over the past 2...

Date: 05/17/2006

Must blog more often, must blog more often, must blog more often...

Ok ok, I know... I should blog more often... hectic times. No excuses though - here's another...

Date: 05/17/2006

Windows Workflow Beta 2.2 is live !

Microsoft.com Download...

Date: 03/15/2006

IT Forum 2005 Database Track : Feedback Request

With TechEd 2005 Europe now a fading memory, we're well into the planning for IT Forum 2005 which...

Date: 08/23/2005

TechEd 2005 Europe Attendees get Virtual Server 2005 Enterprise Edition For Free

All registered attendees for TechEd 2005 Europe Amsterdam (from 5 till 8 July for those that haven't...

Date: 06/09/2005

FAQ : ASP.NET 2.0 Membership Provider for AD/ADAM

After the EMEA ASP.NET 2.0 on Tour event, lots of devs have been asking me about our plans for an...

Date: 03/10/2005

EMEA ASP.NET 2.0 on Tour : Personalization & Membership demo code now available

Some folks have been sending me email about how to get the code samples we used in the EMEA ASP.NET...

Date: 03/10/2005

EMEA ASP.NET 2.0 on Tour : post-mortem

Last week Wednesday, we hosted the EMEA ASP.NET 2.0 on Tour event in Brussels, Belgium.This was our...

Date: 03/10/2005

TechEd Europe 2005 : Call for papers

Ever wanted to speak at TechEd Europe 2005? Are you a top-notch technical speaker? Are you really...

Date: 02/22/2005

Wanted : Windows Longhorn Server Feedback

Wanna get a great idea in front of a Microsoft developer? Ever wish Windows Server had a feature you...

Date: 08/31/2004

.NET Framework 1.0 SP3 and 1.1 SP1 Tech Preview now Available for Download

Oh heck, I love living on the bleeding edge - although not on my production machines. :-) So here...

Date: 07/02/2004

Adding sample data to SQL Server 2005 Express

Yes, finally SQL Server 2005 Express Beta 1 has been released !SQL Express is the new name for...

Date: 07/01/2004

Mono 1.0 and Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 released !

So here it is, v1.0 of the Mono framework, an open source implementation of the .NET framework for...

Date: 07/01/2004

PayPal goes XML Web Services and releases SDK !

Well, I've always liked the PayPal thing. Fast, easy online payment and quite secure (if you know...

Date: 06/30/2004