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The guys that deliver the CUs sure do a great job, yet another one delivered on time. This one will take you to build 10.00.1798. More information here .

The next SQLUG evening will take place in our Microsoft Belux offices. So please feel free to drop by and ask your nasty questions or just have a chat with me ;-) From their website: MDX, from zero to hero. This session is brought to you by Franky Leeuwerck...

We are very pleased to announce the first CTP of Service Pack 1 for SQL Server 2008. Apart from all the fixes we also made a couple investments that you will appreciate. The change that will make many of you very happy is that we now allow slipstreaming...

Time to take SQL Server 2005 SP3 to build 9.00.4211 with this new CU2 for SP3. More information here . For those of you who are still on SP2 there is a cumulative update package which takes you to build 9.00.3315. More information here .

SQL Server has been gaining a lot of credibility in the data warehousing market the last couple of years. With that the challenge arises more and more to load massive amounts of data in SQL Server. Obviously this is a matter of good hardware in combination...

We are very proud to announce that SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 are now officially a supported solution for SAP. More information can be found in this press release . Some quick facts from our SAP portal site: Over 65,000 SAP...

Another update to the Books Online for SQL Server 2008 has been posted. Get it here . Is it just me or is SQL Server a very well documented product? What is your experience with other products?

Again another 2 months have passed since the last CU for SQL Server 2008 was released. We all know that means the new CU has arrived, this time it will take you to build 10.00.1787. More information here . PS. Sorry for the delay in posting but...

We are very proud to announce you the completely redesigned Microsoft BI website. Check it out @ http://www.microsoft.com/bi/ .

The Belgian SQL Server User Group is organizing another interesting evening full of technical content. From their website: "This UG-evening will start with an introduction of the basics of index design (the heap,clustered/non clustered indexes and covering...

We know this is a bit unusual but we have released the first cumulative update package for SQL Server 2005 SP3 too, this time it will take you to build 9.00.4207. This CU contains the fixes that are in CU10 & CU11 for Service Pack 2. More information...

The service pack many people have been waiting for has been released. Now I need to remember another build number (9.00.4035) ;-) Get it here . For those of you who are still on SP2, we also released CU11 for SQL Server 2005 SP2 which will take you...

For those of you who did not get the chance to attend PASS, there was a great announcement around "Application & Multi-Server Management". This will take the management and deployment of your databases to a whole new level! The key themes for this...

Service Pack 2 for PerformancePoint Server 2007 has been released. This means we now have full support for SQL Server 2008! More information here .

Just a quick notification that the SQL Server 2008 version of this wonderful guide is out. If you are looking at upgrading to SQL Server 2008 this is a must read! Get it here .

It has been almost 2 months so here is CU2 for SQL Server 2008 RTM. This time it will take you to build 1779. Check out the details here .

It was a couple of months ago that the people from the Belgian SQL Server User Group came up with the idea to organize a large event focused on SQL Server 2008. Of course we thought this was a great idea but we also understood that this would not be something...

The first public beta of Service Pack 3 for SQL Server 2005 is now available for download . This is obviously for testing purposes only! If you have feedback please feel free to let us know on Connect .

We are very proud to announce that Report Builder 2.0 is now available for download! Check out the announcement on the RS Team Blog here or go to the download directly. This is a very important release for our BI stack since ad hoc reporting is becoming...

This is a question someone asked me yesterday and if you think about it, this is really a good question. The partitioning function defines on which partition the row will be mapped based on the partitioning column value. Imagine that you have a table...

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This is probably one of the most frequently asked questions since we have released Hyper-V and SQL Server 2008. I guess you all know we do support running SQL Server 2008 in a virtual environment ask explained here . Like always there is no good answer...

A very short post since all the information you need is on Gert Drapers blog but I just want to make sure everyone knows about this. Please read this very important announcement about Visual Studio Team System Database Edition! *EDIT* Even more information...

I attended a great SQLUG.BE evening last night about SSIS. Thank you for all the effort you put in this guys! When I come in contact with the people that are using our products everyday I hear that they have a lot of good feedback on how we could improve...

Just like we did with SQL Server 2005 we will be releasing cumulative update packages on regular intervals for SQL Server 2008 too. This package contains all of the SQL Server 2008 hotfixes that have been released since the initial release. This first...