Welcome to the September WARDY IT Solutions SQL Server Newsletter

As SQL Server 2008 has now been released for eight weeks, the first Cumulative Update (CU) has appeared. Cumulative Update 1 contains the hotfixes for issues that have been fixed since the release of SQL Server 2008. The details for downloading this CU can be found here.Cumulative Updates are part of the Incremental Servicing Model that was introduced in SQL Server 2005. Under this model a CU is released every eight weeks.

To find out more on how the release of SQL Server 2008 and this Cumulative Update will affect your organisation; why not contact Brisbane's Leading SQL Server Consultants, WARDY IT Solutions?

This month:

• I will be presenting at SQL Down under Code Camp in Wagga Wagga
• I will be presenting at the Perth SQL Server User Group
• I will be presenting at the Brisbane SQL Server User Group
• I will be hosting a SQL Server 2008 breakfast event in Brisbane and Perth
• Jeff Wharton will be presenting at the QLD MSDN User Group
• WARDY IT Solutions is running a two-day Reporting Services class in Brisbane on the 27th & 28th of October

The WARDY IT Solutions team recently participated in the 10km Bridge to Brisbane fun run and raised $500 to support Youngcare. Below is a few of the team walking across the line to the finish.

If you are in Tasmaina, South Australia or the ACT then keep an eye out for Tech SummerFest 2008. WARDY IT Solutions has partnered with Portal Synergy and AB Training to deliver a one Technical Showcase and two days of SQL Server, SharePoint and VSTS training in Hobart, Adeliade and Canberra. The first Tech SummerFest is in Hobart and will run from the 25th-27th of November, Adelaide is then the 2nd-4th of December and Canberra is the 9th-11th December.

Happy Reading

Peter Ward

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October WARDY IT Community Dinner

The WARDY IT Community Dinner is a casual event for IT professionals in South East Queensland. It is a fun way to meet new people and find out how other IT professionals are dealing with the challenges that we face every day. The October WARDY IT dinner is being held on Monday the 13th of October at the Breakfast Creek Hotel. Add this event to your Outlook Calendar.

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October SQL Server User Groups

At the October QLD SQL Server User Group Peter Ward will be presenting a session on Business Continuity with Backup and Restore. For more details on this event go to here.

For details of SQL Server User Group events in other Australian cities refer to the Australian SQL Server User Groups website.

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SQL Server Healthcheck

Does your SQL Server need a Healthcheck? A WARDY IT Solutions SQL Server Healthcheck is designed to review and verify the implementation of common SQL Server Best Practices. Our Database Health Check includes all of the usage and administration aspects of SQL Server databases, ensuring that your SQL Servers are managed and operated well. Our approach is to analyse the total health of your SQL Server environment and highlight areas of concern, providing recommendations to improve the health and performance of your database environment. For more details on our SQL Server Healthcheck refer here.

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SQL Down Under Code Camp

SQL Down Under Code Camp is a Free SQL Server community-driven event which is held at Charles Sturt University in Wagg Wagga. It is a great opportunity for people of all interests across the Microsoft data platform to come together in one location and see some of Australia's best presenters. This year’s event is being held on the weekend of the 11th and 12th of October. WARDY IT Solutions will once again be organising the Espresso van on the Saturday morning. For more details refer to here.

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Reporting Services Training

WARDY IT Solutions will be running a two-day hands on SQL Server Reporting Services course in Brisbane (27th & 28th October), Sydney (3rd & 4th November) and Canberra (6th & 7th November). For more details and to register for this popular course call 1300 WARDY IT (927 394).

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Free SQL Server 2008 E-Book

If you are looking to learn about the major new features in SQL Server 2008 including security, administration and performance then the E-Book 'Introducing Microsoft SQL Server 2008' is a great place to start. This Free E-Book can be downloaded from here.

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SQL Server 2008 Migration Assistants

Migration assistants are now available for download to help make migrating data easier from Access, Oracle and Sybase to SQL Server 2008. These tools aim to streamline the process of moving databases to SQL Server and can be downloaded from here.

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Free SQL Server Breakfast

In order to further assist organisations understand what the release of SQL Server 2008 means, WARDY IT Solutions will be holding a series of Free Breakfast events. The first event is at the Microsoft Brisbane office on Tuesday the 14th of October followed by Perth on Friday the 17th of October. To register for these free Breakfast events email contact@wardyit.com.

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SQL Server 2005 Failover Clustering

If you are planning to implement SQL Server 2005 then the following white paper should be your first point of call. The white paper provides documentation about planning, implementing and administering a failover cluster using SQL Server 2005. This white paper can be downloaded from here.

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Integration and Messaging Framework

Are you looking for a light weight integration and messaging framework? WARDY IT Solutions has developed a Framework known as Hermes which is designed as a heterogeneous delivery mechanism to process thousands of requests a second. Hermes is a midrange platform that allows customers to quickly write their own plugins and even expose them as WCF services. To find out more about this framework why not contact us today?

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