SQLSaturday Orlando Scheduled for October 7, 2023

The call for speakers is open! We’re always excited to have experienced and past speakers return (Rob Volk!), but if you’re a first time or relatively new speaker just a note that we’d be thrilled to have you join us too. We’ll be at our usual venue this year, Seminole State College just north of […]

Notes from SQLSaturday South Florida 2023

Quick notes on the event this year: Overall a good event and now I have a few months until SQLSaturday in Orlando in October.

Notes from SQLSaturday Jacksonville 2023

Year 15 for Jacksonville! SQLSaturday Jax was held on May 6 this year, back at the usual location on the campus of the University of North Florida. At the end of the the thought I had most was it just felt….normal. Back to pre-Covid in terms of energy and attendance and implementation. They had three […]

Notes on SQLSaturday Orlando 2022

First, the numbers. We registered 240 people, had about 110 on site. That’s definitely better than last year and still quite a bit under what it was pre-Covid. I’ll admit the recovery back to normal is taking longer than I expected. By a lot. I think all we can do is keep having events and […]

SQLSaturday Orlando on October 8, 2022

This year we’re back at our usual location on the campus of Seminole State College for SQLSaturday #1030. You may remember that last year we couldn’t use the college and had to rent space at the Marriott. Beautiful space well suited to an event, but definitely not free. We have a strong preference for free […]

Notes on SQLSaturday Jacksonville 2022

I drove up to Jacksonville Friday afternoon to allow for bad traffic and immediately hit bad traffic, all four lanes of I-4 blocked that resulted in a 30 minute detour. Friday traffic in Florida, always something! Traffic aggravation aside, it felt good to be on the road to an event again, just like life used […]

Notes on the 2021 PASS Summit

I attended the three main days this year and wrote notes as I went. As I sat down to type them up I started by going back to look at my notes from year since both were virtual. Re-reading those and a few other posts I wrote around that time, these things came to mind: […]

Notes on SQLSaturday Orlando 2021

We held an in-person SQLSaturday here in Orlando last weekend (Oct 30th). We didn’t organize one last year, there was just too much risk and too much uncertainty, so it felt good to return to something close to normal this year, even in scaled back fashion. I’ve got a lot of notes to share about […]

SQLSaturday Orlando 2021 – September Update

Just over 30 days until SQLSaturday Orlando and I’m using some vacation time today to catch up on event tasks. That’s deliberate on my part, I knew I was going to be taking a break and so it was ok to queue some stuff to do all at once. I’ve had a couple of recurring […]

SQLSaturday Orlando 2021

We’ve opened up registration and the call for speakers for SQLSaturday Orlando, to be held October 30th at the Orlando Marriott Lake Mary. In-person! We weren’t able to get a space commitment from our partners at the local college, so we pivoted to looking at hotels and found that meeting space in October was being […]