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A non-yielding issue may cause a database mirroring failover in SQL Server 2005 and in SQL Server 2008.
FIX: Data loss may occur if the database mirroring thread stops responding for a long time during an automatic failover process in SQL Server 2005 or in SQL Server 2008.
Cumulative update package 9 for SQL Server 2008.
High CPU utilization may occur with your queries on SQL Server 2005 and SQL Sever 2008 servers compared to SQL Server 2000.
OS Errors 1450 and 665 are reported for database data files.
Log Reader Agent reports “The process could not execute 'sp_replcmds' on '%s'” on a partitioned table with more than 92 partitions.
Error code when you use Windows Update or Microsoft Update to install updates: "0x737D".
FIX: Even though the Distribution Agent successfully reapplies a batch of failed commands, you still receive error message 20046 that indicates that the Distribution Agent failed in a SQL Server 2005 transactional replication.
FIX: The -R parameter is ignored when you use the BCP.exe utility together with the -R parameter and the -F parameter in SQL Server 2005.
FIX: An access violation occurs when you run the SET FMTONLY statement to set the value of the FMTONLY option to ON and the SQL Server 2005 server is under memory pressure.
FIX: Error message when you run a query that uses a common table expression to shred XML data in SQL Server 2005: "Internal Query Processor Error: The query processor could not produce a query plan".
FIX: Assertion failures occur in SQL Server 2005 when a Distributed Transaction Coordinator (DTC) transaction is rolled back while that transaction is being commited by the DTC.
FIX: An access violation occurs when you run a query on a table that has a partitioned nonclustered index in SQL Server 2005.
FIX: Error message when you add a subscription to a republisher that is in a merge publication in SQL Server 2005: “Cannot create the subscription because the subscription already exists in the subscription database”.
FIX: An insert operation for a temporary table that has a foreigh key constraint fails when the execution plan for the INSERT statement contains a merge join operation in SQL Server 2005.

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SQL Server 2008 Launch - London - 19th June 2008

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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 you want us to cover.

We have loads of giveaways, including Vista, training vouchers, Technet subscriptions and SQL Server licenses.

Registration is at 5.30, evening will commence at 6pm and finish 9pm.

6pm - 6.30pm
Round Table Discussion
Update on what's been going on and is going on in the SQL Server space.
Bring your SQL problems and ask the audience, bounce ideas - anything related to SQL Server.

The topics to cover in next parts could be any of the following, Simon and Jasper will hope to answer and demo the features you want to know about.

TSQL improvements, new data types, changes to CLR, spatial data, hierarchies, service broker, changes to tools, SSIS improvements, Integrated Full Text, Sparse Columns, Filtered Indexes, XQuery changes, Compression, Change Data Capture, Change Tracking, Intellisense, Table Valued Parameters, Script Task in SSIS, Performance Data Collector, Reporting services

6.30pm – 7.30pm Part 1

7.30 – 7.50pm Break - Beer and Pizza

7.50pm - 9.00pm Part 2

Speaker Bios
Simon Sabin http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/simons
Simon is Director of his own data consultancy company Onarc Consulting that specialises in data related systems. He is also a Developer Skills Partner with SQLSkills. He has a particular expertise in the world of search, distributed architectures, business intelligence and application development. He has worked with SQL Server since 1998 and has always focused on high performance reliable systems.
Simon was awarded as an MVP in 2006. He founded the first free SQL Server conference in the UK SQLBits in 2007 along with other MVPs in the UK. He is a regular speaker at SQL Server events as well as writing his blog and writing for SQLServerCentral and Simple-Talk.com.
He has most recently been involved in developing the SQL Server 2008 training for Microsoft.

Jasper Smith http://sqlblogcasts.com/blogs/sqldbatips
Jasper has been working with SQL Server for around 6 years and is currently a member of the Database Services team at Nationwide Building Society in the UK. He also writes articles and code for his website : http://www.sqldbatips.com

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Past Events

20 Jan 2010 DUNDEE Evening Meeting (6 registered) Allan Mitchell - Intro to SQL Server Integration Services 2008; Tony Rogerson - Intro to SQL Server tools both flavours - DBA and Developer. Usual Nuggets, Usual SQL LiveLock; Q & A; Advice etc..	17 Dec 2009 MANCHESTER Evening Meeting (9 registered) Manchester SQL Server User group - Round the table talks, SQL Nuggets, Informal talk and out for a drink and a chance to win a Copy of Windows 7 and SQL Server 2008
10 Dec 2009 LEEDS Evening Meeting (9 registered) An evening of Service Broker and Powershell	26 Nov 2009 EDINBURGH Evening Meeting (8 registered) Cancelled SQL Server Nuggets and a look into the Newsgroups
26 Nov 2009 LONDON Evening Meeting (57 registered) SQL Server internals and best practice for Absolute Beginners (Tony Rogerson); Nuggest from Dave Ballantyne on Ranking, UDF's; MS Business Intelligence Project Boosters (Siddharth Mehta) - an Introduction to the Power of Policies (Martin Cairney), BakBone product demonstration and the first LiveLock Discussion	18 Nov 2009 LONDON Evening Meeting SQL Azure and what is new in SQL Server 2008 R2
11 Nov 2009 READING Evening Meeting (36 registered) High Availability (Partitioning, File Groups (use of, backup/restore)) and an Introduction to SQL Server architecture - Tony Rogerson; Virtualising SQL Server (why, design, how, issues, solutions, troubleshooting) - Justin Langford	29 Oct 2009 LONDON Evening Meeting (42 registered) Deploying SSRS reports using msbuild (Jamie Thomson); BI 2.0 (Andrew Sadler); Data Warehouse Development Workbench for SQL Server (Steve Hitchman)
28 Oct 2009 DUNDEE Evening Meeting SQL Injection Attacks and Tips on How to Prevent Them	15 Oct 2009 MANCHESTER Evening Meeting (17 registered) Reporting Services evening. Hosted by Chris Testa-O'Neill
14 Oct 2009 READING Evening Meeting (33 registered) Focus: Developer/DBA; Tony Rogerson on TSQL Hints and Tips (CTE Recursion,Case,Partitioning,Sub-Queries,Normalisation/DeNormalisation) and Colin Leversuch-Roberts "How are my servers Today?" - real time monitoring dashboards	8 Oct 2009 CARDIFF Evening Meeting (18 registered) South Wales User Group first meeting - Ensuring Business Continuity (Backups, Mirroring and Monitoring) - Tony Rogerson; SQL 2008 Integration Services - some of the things that make it better - Allan Mitchell.
8 Oct 2009 EDINBURGH Evening Meeting (11 registered) SQL Server Performance Analysis Tools and Powershell	1 Oct 2009 LEEDS Evening Meeting (10 registered) SQL Server Reporting Services and Analysis Services with Chris Testa-O'Neill
28 Sep 2009 BRACKNELL Evening Meeting SQL Server with Colin Leversuch-Roberts

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tonyrogerson Tue 7:44AM

Martin Bell blogs the SQL 2008 R2 Update for Developers Training kit http://bit.ly/bywIrz has been released - looks good and is free #sqlfaq

Chris Testa-O'Neill Tue 7:27PM

Manchester SQL Server content being finalised and should appear on SQLFAQ at the weekend. dates will be added to each event soon after. #sqlfaq

Chris Testa-O'Neill Tue 7:26PM

Manchester SQL Server content being finalised and should appear on SQLFAQ at the weekend. dates will be added to each event soon after