Change Data Capture (CDC) is disabled by default in SQL 2008.  To check if it is enabled for a given DB use this SELECT:

-- if column is_cdc_enabled exists in the result, then CDC is enabled for the database select name, is_cdc_enabled from sys.databases

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Join SQL Server authors and MVPs for a week of warehousing and get the latest on Microsoft Business Intelligence inside your environment. If you are in any stage of a data warehouse design, administration or planning you won't want to miss out on this free "week of warehousing" webinar series, free from SQLServerCentral.com and in partership with Wrox and Pragmatic Works. You may attend all five sessions if you wish or register for the sessions independently. Audio is provided either via a phone or over your computer speakers (voice over IP).

In this week of warehousing, you'll learn how to design a data warehouse, load it using SSIS, place a cube on top of it using SSAS and report against it using SSRS. Finally, you'll see how to performance tune and scale the data warehouse using common techniques. All speakers have authored many of your favorite books from Wrox (some speakers will be announced next week). SQLServerCentral.com's last webinar series had nearly 15,000 registered so register quick for one the morning or afternoon session to claim your spot!

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Monday Feb 23 9:30AM EST Register	Designing a Data Warehouse Featuring: Erik Veerman	Improve the speed of your production can be as easy as giving your users a new place to report against. In this session, you'll learn from SQL Server MVP, Erik Veerman how a data warehouse can benefit your organization and how to design one for SQL Server. You'll also see at a high level how the data flows into the warehouse in a Microsoft data warehouse ecosystem.
Monday Feb 23 1:30PM EST Register	Designing a Data Warehouse Featuring: Erik Veerman	Improve the speed of your production can be as easy as giving your users a new place to report against. In this session, you'll learn from SQL Server MVP, Erik Veerman how a data warehouse can benefit your organization and how to design one for SQL Server. You'll also see at a high level how the data flows into the warehouse in a Microsoft data warehouse ecosystem.
Tuesday Feb 24 9:30AM EST Register	Loading a Data Warehouse with SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Featuring: Brian Knight	Now that you have a data warehouse designed, how would you go about loading the warehouse from your relational database that has been in production for years. Join Microsoft MVP and author Brian Knight in this session on how to use SSIS to load and synchronize a data warehouse.
Tuesday Feb 24 1:30PM EST Register	Loading a Data Warehouse with SQL Server Integration Services (SSIS) Featuring: Brian Knight	Now that you have a data warehouse designed, how would you go about loading the warehouse from your relational database that has been in production for years. Join Microsoft MVP and author Brian Knight in this session on how to use SSIS to load and synchronize a data warehouse.
Wednesday Feb 25 9:30AM EST Register	Introduction to Analysis Services (SSAS) Featuring: Siva Harinath	Tired of having to write hundreds of one-off reports? SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) can help clear your report backlog by giving your users the ability to perform ad-hoc reporting with pivot tables. Learn how to create a SSAS cube, how to process it and finally view quick reports to answers questions you didn't even know you had about your business.
Wednesday Feb 25 1:30PM  EST Register	Introduction to Analysis Services (SSAS) Featuring: Siva Harinath	Tired of having to write hundreds of one-off reports? SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) can help clear your report backlog by giving your users the ability to perform ad-hoc reporting with pivot tables. Learn how to create a SSAS cube, how to process it and finally view quick reports to answers questions you didn't even know you had about your business.
Thursday Feb 26 9:30AM  EST Register	Reporting against a Data Warehouse with SSRS Featuring: Paul Turley	In this session, you'll learn how to report against your data warehouse and SSAS cubes by using Reporting Services 2008. Learn what's new and easy ways to visualize data warehouse data in this comprehensive session for beginners.
Thursday Feb 26 1:30PM EST Register	Performance Tuning  and Scaling a Data Warehouse Featuring: JC Armand	Some of the largest databases in the world are data warehouses, scaling to dozens (or hundreds) of terrabytes in some cases. In this session, you'll explore how to make your SQL Server 2008 database scale and easy ways to diagnose and troubleshoot problems. You'll learn how to performance tune and scale the hardware to the OS in this vital session for most organizations.
Friday Feb 27 9:30AM EST Register	Performance Tuning and Scaling a Data Warehouse Featuring: JC Armand	Some of the largest databases in the world are data warehouses, scaling to dozens (or hundreds) of terrabytes in some cases. In this session, you'll explore how to make your SQL Server 2008 database scale and easy ways to diagnose and troubleshoot problems. You'll learn how to performance tune and scale the hardware to the OS in this vital session for most organizations.
Friday Feb 27 1:30PM EST Register	Reporting against a Data Warehouse with SSRS Featuring: Paul Turley	In this session, you'll learn how to report against your data warehouse and SSAS cubes by using Reporting Services 2008. Learn what's new and easy ways to visualize data warehouse data in this comprehensive session for beginners.

Lately I've been trying to improve my graphics skills but photoshop CS4 gives me a GUI headache.  I've ended up using Paint.NET (http://www.getpaint.net/download.html) a lot for simple web effects stuff.  It's nice to have an easy to use and powerful graphics program that will run swiftly even on a 5 year old lap top.

Microsoft has confirmed that it will not be releasing any more beta versions of Windows 7, with the next release likely to be the first release candidate of the eagerly anticipated operating system.

The successor to Vista has been very well received since it arrived in beta, which will come as an almighty relief to Microsoft after the failure of Vista to hit the heights that were expected for it.....

-http://www.techradar.com/news/software/end-of-beta-is-in-sight-for-windows-7-516516

After running these scripts you can easily view the underlying MDX query for any pivot table that uses a SSAS cube for its datasource:
 

Use the following script to add a show MDX Query option when you right click a pivot table in Excel 2007:

Private Sub Workbook_Open()    Dim ptcon As CommandBar         Set ptcon = Application.CommandBars("PivotTable context menu") insertDisplayMDX:    Dim cmdMdx As CommandBarControl    For Each btn In ptcon.Controls        If btn.Caption = "MDX Query" Then GoTo doneDisplayMDX    Next btn       ' Add an item to the PivotTable context menu.    Set cmdMdx = ptcon.Controls.Add(Type:=msoControlButton, temporary:=True)       ' Set the properties of the menu item.    cmdMdx.Caption = "MDX Query"    cmdMdx.OnAction = "DisplayMDX"        doneDisplayMDX: End Sub

And put this in a seperate module:

Sub DisplayMDX()     Dim mdxQuery As String     Dim pvt As PivotTable     Dim ws As Worksheet        Set pvt = ActiveCell.PivotTable     mdxQuery = pvt.MDX         ' Add a new worksheet.     Set ws = Worksheets.Add     ws.Range("A1") = mdxQuery End Sub

Works great!

The code comes from http://sqljunkies.com/WebLog/sqlbi/archive/2007/01/18/26875.aspx