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Saturday, October 10, 2009 6:27 AM

SQL Server Day 2009

The Belgian SQL Server User Group is organizing the second SQL Server Day on the 3rd of December. Last year about 200 people gathered for this event and of course we hope to have even more this year! Please visit http://www.sqlserverday.be for more information
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Wednesday, July 22, 2009 7:48 AM

Cumulative update package 3 for SQL Server 2008 SP1

The third cumulative update package for SQL Server 2008 SP1 is now available @ http://support.microsoft.com/kb/971491 . This will take you to build 10.00.2723. People using the auditing function will probably be interested in the following fix http://support.microsoft.com/kb/967552
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009 9:14 AM

Data Compression and Heaps

I think we can all agree that Data Compression is a great new functionality in SQL Server 2008. I know many of you have been experimenting with it but there was one little catch I wanted you to be aware of. When you apply page compression to a table the
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009 1:24 PM

Cumulative update package 2 for SQL Server 2008 SP1

The second cumulative update package for SQL Server 2008 SP1 is now available @ http://support.microsoft.com/kb/970315 . This will take you to build 10.00.2714. And do not forget the "Lock Pages In Memory" change ( here )!
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Monday, April 27, 2009 10:30 AM

Lock Pages In Memory in SQL Server Standard Edition

Until now "Lock Pages In Memory" was an option only available to SQL Server Enterprise Edition customers. Very simply put it prevents SQL Server from paging out the memory it has allocated (a deep explanation can be found in the references below). We
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Thursday, April 16, 2009 9:08 AM

Cumulative update package 1 for SQL Server 2008 SP1

Wow, the guys in the SQL Server team are working really hard. The first CU for SQL Server 2008 SP1 has already been released and will take you to build 10.00.2710. More information here .
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009 7:10 AM

SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1

We are very proud to announce the release of the first service pack for SQL Server 2008. With the release of SQL Server 2008 we have also made great investments in the installer. I am sure you have all noticed that the setup experience is completely different
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009 11:09 AM

Cumulative update package 4 for SQL Server 2008

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 .
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009 8:16 AM

SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 1 - CTP

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
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Friday, February 13, 2009 10:52 AM

The Data Loading Performance Guide

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
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Friday, February 06, 2009 7:59 AM

SAP on SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008

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 installations
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Tuesday, February 03, 2009 9:39 AM

Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Books Online - January 2009 Update

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?
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Wednesday, January 21, 2009 8:17 PM

Cumulative update package 3 for SQL Server 2008

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 I am on
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Wednesday, November 26, 2008 3:01 PM

SQL Server 2008 Upgrade Technical Reference Guide

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 .
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008 10:56 AM

Cumulative update package 2 for SQL Server 2008

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 .
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