A total of 14 different Belgian User Groups focused on Microsoft technology will be delivering sessions all day long, a total of 24.  The SQLUG will deliver two sessions.

So what are you waiting for?  Sign up for a full day of free training!

And if you’re a LinkedIn user, don’t forget to add the event to your list: Community Day 2010 on LinkedIn.  Ow, and post a comment here if you’re going.  I’d like to find out if any Belgians are actually reading this (most of my visitors are from the US).

As for the food department: there won’t be any French (French??) fries this year.  I wonder what they’ve got for us this time.  Me personally I wouldn’t mind if the “fritkot” was replaced with a Burger King “fetchpoint”.  Okay, it’s probably not as healthy as some other choices, but who cares at that stage?  All we want is food and the requirements are: good taste, and plenty of it!  After all, we’re still in a movie theatre, which is not really the place to go to when you’re on a health trip.  We’ll eat a piece of fruit when we get back home.  But I wouldn’t say no to a good glass of freshly squeezed OJ in the morning, followed by a croissant and a strong coffee

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

Need more info?  Click here.

Happy learning, and see you there!

Valentino.

When?

Thursday, April 20th, 2010

Where?

Microsoft België
Corporate Village
Leonardo Da Vincilaan 3
1935 Zaventem

More info

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.

Click here for more info or here to register!

See you there,

Valentino

The Belgian SQL Server User Group offers a significant 35% discount for its members (even more than the early-bird discount) for any PASS European Conference 2010 registration.

Use discount code BEC15Y and enjoy your savings on the registration.

For more information check out the SQLUG website.  PASS European Conference 2010 is Europe’s premier conference for SQL Server technical education and business networking.  Meet top SQL Server experts from Europe and around the world.  Learn about best practices, effective troubleshooting, how to prevent issues, save money, and build a better SQL Server environment for your company or clients.

A while ago I already blogged about the sessions that I’m planning to see (which reminds that I should have another look at the agenda and update my list there )

Have fun!

Valentino.

Service Broker provides queuing and reliable messaging for SQL Server. Service Broker is used both for applications that use a single SQL Server instance and applications that distribute work across multiple instances.

Within a single SQL Server instance, Service Broker provides a robust asynchronous programming model. Database applications typically use asynchronous programming to shorten interactive response time and increase overall application throughput.

Service Broker also provides reliable messaging between SQL Server instances. Service Broker helps developers compose applications from independent, self-contained components called services. Applications that require the functionality exposed in these services use messages to interact with the services. Service Broker uses TCP/IP to exchange messages between instances. Service Broker includes features to help prevent unauthorized access from the network and to encrypt messages sent over the network.

(The above was quoted from the BOL.)

Who?

Dr. Nico Jacobs, PhD in Data Mining, trainer/consultant at U2U focusing on SQL Server/BI.

When?

February 11, 2010.

Where?

Avenade, Vilvoorde.

Register here: http://sqlug.be/nextevent/

More info at the SQLUG site.

See you there!

For the second year in a row, the Belgian SQL Server User Group organizes the SQL Server Day.

Like last year, the event will take place at Utopolis Mechelen.

If you’re ready for a day filled with learning and networking opportunities and you can make yourself available at December 3, register at www.sqlserverday.be!

There will be some interesting speakers such as:

• Chris Webb – SSAS and Gemini
• Henk van der Valk – SSIS world record
• Dirk Gubbels – Change tracking
• my colleagues Luc Lemaire and Mario Van Hissenhoven – Report Builder 3.0

If you’re attending as well and would like to meet up for a chat, don’t hesitate to post a comment here!

See you there!

What are the topics of the presentations?

New T-SQL programmability features in SQL server 2008 (by Dirk Gubbels)

Scaling Up Your Data Warehouse with SQL Server 2008 (by Geert Vanhove)

Managing large and multi server environments with SQL Server 2008 (by Frederik Vandeputte)

SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services & Report Builder 2.0 (by Dave Mommen)

Beyond relational – Geospatial Data in SQL Server 2008 (by Werner Geuens)

Predictive Analysis with Data Mining in SQL Server 2008 (by Mark Janssens and Dennis Gillon)

More info, including registration, on www.sqlserverday.be.  I’ll be there!