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29 January 2010 21:53

SQLBits Videos available now available

You can watch all the sessions from SQLBits V now. They are available for download or for viewing online. If there is a delay then just wait, the videos are high quality and so are very large. These are the links to all the sessions A whistlestop tour...
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30 September 2009 22:34

SQLBits Early Bird has been extended

SQLBits is not around to make moeny, its here to build the SQL Community. What that means is that when start to cover our costs then there is no point in charging people more. We've reached that point and so what we've done is push back the end...
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19 August 2009 23:45

Win a free registration and Hotel for SQLBits V

We've just announced a competition to win a free ticket for all 3 days of SQLBits. Plus we will put you up in the Hotel on the Thursday and Friday night. So you can choose whatever pre con you want to attend, spend the day getting up to speed with SQL 2008 and then spend the Saturday learning about everything else you wanted to know about SQL. Thats all worth £500 +

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15 August 2009 10:37

Session videos from SQLBits IV are now available

You can now view the videos from SQLBits A - Manchester

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13 October 2008 14:07

Free SQL Server 2008 Training

Do you want some free SQL Server 2008 training? I you work for a company that has some SQL Server professionals or you know of some that work nearby then we want you to be part of the SQL Server 2008 community launch program. We want you to hold one or...
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24 April 2008 09:46

SQL Server 2008 UK Usergroup London Launch event

SQL Server 2008 UK Usergroup London Launch event As part of the SQL Server Launch wave we are holding a usergroup meeting to celebrate the launch (not RTM). We're going to run this as an open session so you'll be able to ask us to cover the areas...
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19 February 2008 17:52

SQL Server 2008 - CTP6 is now available

The next CTP of SQL Serve 2008 is now available for download. Whats different about this CTP from the others, apart from the new features which there are a lot, is there is a bug bash contest that is opening. Simply put the people that raise the most...
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18 December 2007 23:08

Office 2007 iFilters are now available

The ifilters needed to index office 2007 documents are now available for download from here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=60C92A37-719C-4077-B5C6-CAC34F4227CC&displaylang=en At the time of writing some of the related KB...
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24 November 2007 02:06

SQLBits 2008 In Birmingham on 1st March Call for speakers

Yes we're doing it again. SQLBits ( www.sqlbits.com ) will be back on the 1st March at The Lakeside Conference Centre in Birmingham. Its a bigger venue than TVP so we shouldbe able to let more people attend. Registrations aren't open yet but if...
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27 August 2007 20:54

SQLBits Registration is open

We have now opened the full registration for www.SQLBits.com You will need to register on the site and then select the 10 sessions ( http://www.sqlbits.com/information/PublicSessions.aspx ) you would most like to see. We will use this voting to help decide...
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18 July 2007 00:10

PDF 64 bit iFilter at last

If you use full text and wat to index pdf documents you might have found you run into problems on a 64 bit machine. This is because there is no 64 bit iFilter for pdfs. The iFiliter is the bit of code that interprets the code and spits out the information...
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17 July 2007 00:10

SQLBits - Free SQL Server Conference October 2007

I have pleasure in announcing SQLBits Community Day .On the 6th October we will be taking over building 3 at Microsoft's Head offices in Reading. To hold a full day of SQL Server content with speakers from the UK. There will be 20 sessions over 3...
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28 June 2007 00:55

SSIS : Enhanced Error Component - Update

I have finally got round to looking into the error reports and found a few bugs in this component. I have uploaded a new install for this component including the fixes. The component now validates correctly that the correct inputs are attached to the...
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04 June 2007 19:55

SQL Server 2005 May 2007 BOL now available

Thanks to Gail Erickson of the SQL Server Documentation Team notifying me of the availability of May BOL. The May 2007 release of Books Online is available on MSDN and on the download site. This is a very targeted update to BOL and is limited to correcting...
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08 May 2007 12:51

Using SMO from TSQL

If you are desperate to get your hands on the code I used in the SMO in TSQL demo I did at the usergroup meeting you can download it now from codeplex. http://www.codeplex.com/SMOinTSQL There are 2 projects in there one an SSMS project and one a C# project...
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