Dear all! I recently changed my role to Infrastructure Architect Evangelist especially for IT-Pro audience at Developer & Platform Group (DPE) in Microsoft Austria. If you are interested in news about Cloud, Infrastructure, SQL you can now follow...

SQL PASS has installed a new SQL Server/Oracle Virtual Chapter! The goal of the Chapter is "... to provide a conducive environment where through the use of online webinars( from both the SQL Server and Oracle Camps), web based articles and cross product...

Last week Business Intelligence Conference in New Orleans took place. There have been lots of very interesting sessions regarding virtually every aspect of Business Intelligence! In the Keynote Ted Kummert, Senior Vice President of Microsofts Business...

In the new SQL Server 2008 R2 release it is the Reporting Services component that really changed a lot! For example one can now publish report parts (eg chart, table) which can be reused in different reports, or now you can also use SharePoint list as...

Check it out here: www.sqlserverlaunch.com Enjoy!

Date: 29.04.2010 Start: 17:00 Location: bwin Event Zone, City Point, Marxergasse 1b, 1030 Vienna (U-Bahn (U3, U4)/Schnellbahnstation Landstraße) Registration: sqlserverug@live.at Title: SQL Server 2005/2008: Index Internals Session length...

Be sure to check out and registrate for free for 24 hours of PASS online event - starting on May 19th you can watch online various webcasts (BI, Multi server managment, Security,...) for 24 hours in a row! Register here: https://www323.livemeeting...

March 2010 Update for SQL Server 2008 R2 for Developers Training Kit has been released! The kit is available as a free download from the MS Download center at the following URL: http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9710868

Microsoft's Pattern & Practices group has released a new, updated version of guidance for building collaborative applications that extend your LOB systems. This guidance helps architects and developers design and build applications that are both...

Did you already hear about PowerPivot? PowerPivot gives users the power to create compelling self-service BI solutions, facilitates sharing and collaboration on user-generated BI solutions in a Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 environment, and enables...

Hi, here are some great links for SharePoint 2010 and InfoPath 2010 (Office 2010), especially for developers! As you maybe already know InfoPath 2010 is a great tool for developing SharePoint 2010 applications - due to various cool features like for...

The Office 2010 Developer Training Kit on Channel 9 content is designed to help developers get started building solutions, from add-ins to full featured Office Business Applications (OBAs), using Visual Studio 2010 with Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010...

Check out SharePoint2010 Developer Training Course on Channel 9! The course contains 14 training units covering all aspects of developing solutions on the SharePoint 2010 platform using Visual Studio 2010 and SharePoint Designer 2010. There is also...

Starting from today the SQL Server November CTP is available for download. The new CTP adds a bunch of new functionality like Report Builder 3.0 (inclusive geospatial visualization), StreamInsight (low-latency complex event processing (CEP) platform...

I would like to introduce you to a great new concept coming out with SQL Server 2008 R2 and Office 2010 called Gemini! The idea behind Gemini is managed self-service Business Intelligence. This means enabling users in various departements to make their...

Last Thursday Austrian SQL Server User Group officially started! The SQL Server User Group is an independend user community with goal to discuss functionality and share knowledge about all aspects of SQL Server - infrastructure, business intelligence...

bwin Interactive Entertainment AG, a world number one company in online gaming, did some extensive tests at MS headquaters in Redmond. Tests involved a 256 processor Windows Server 2008 R2 machine using the newest version of SQL Server 2008 R2. Through...

If you speak German :-) please visit our new Austrian SharePoint Community! The Community will be operated as a blog - http://sharepoint-blog.at/ . In this blog we want to offer useful information and tipps to different people dealing with SharePoint...

If you are interested in Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine Development here is a great link leading to MSDN SQL Server Development Center.

Click here to download SQL Server 2008 developer training kit by Microsofts Developer and Platform Evangelism group. The kit can work with a free SQL Server 2008 version like eg SQL Server 2008 Express. It provides overwiew and examples on spatial data...

I recently heard about Microsoft's Patterns and Practices SharePoint Guidance that can be read and downloaded here . The SharePoint guidance supports architects and developers in designing, building, testing, deploying and upgrading SharePoint intranet...

This web site offers some great introductionary stuff for getting started with SharePoint development - including labs, web and screen casts, whitepapers and even VPC downloads!

Check out this web site offers loads of training on different Microsoft Products including .NET, Silverlight, SaaS, WPF, ... and of course SharePoint and SQL Server! Offered trainings are instructor-led web seminars and virtual labs! For example " Implementing...

Recently I found the SharePoint Online Developer Guide . This guide explains the most important aspects of development and administration using SharePoint Online. The discussed themes include creation of SharePoint Online Sites, how to customize SharePoint...

MSDN Code Gallery is a developer community where you can download and share sample applications, code snippets and other stuff like videos and templates etc… You can also upload your own code and share and discuss it with other community members. There...