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Tuesday, October 20, 2009 8:23 AM

Project Gemini aka PowerPivot for Excel

Yesterday the official name for Project Gemini was announced during the keynote of the SharePoint Conference, as of now Project Gemini will be known as PowerPivot (for Excel). Personally I feel this name is very well chosen since it really expresses what
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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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Monday, August 10, 2009 4:05 PM

SQL Server 2008 R2 CTP2 Available for download

We are very pleased to announce the first public CTP (Community Technology Preview) of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 for MSDN and TechNet subscribers. Availability for non-subscribers is planned for August 12th. This is the first public CTP so it is not
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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, May 11, 2009 5:51 PM

SQL Server Kilimanjaro becomes SQL Server 2008 R2

Today at Tech Ed North America 2009 we have officially announced the new name for SQL Server code-named Kilimanjaro. The official name will be: SQL Server 2008 R2 ! More information can be found @ http://www.microsoft.com/sqlserver/2008/en/us/r2.aspx
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Friday, May 08, 2009 9:34 AM

Next UG event: Visual Studio Team System 2008 Database Edition - The Azure Services Platform and SQL Services - Jun 4th, 2009

The Belgian SQL Server User Group is organizing another great technical evening. I am looking forward meeting you there. From their website: This evening will be split into 2 sessions as follows: Session 1: Overview of Visual StudioTeam System 2008 Database
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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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Wednesday, February 25, 2009 7:51 PM

Next UG-evening on Thu, March 19th: MDX From Zero To Hero

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.
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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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Tuesday, February 17, 2009 7:42 AM

Cumulative update package 2 for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 3

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 .
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