SQLSaturday #318 in Orlando on September 27, 2014

Number 8! Our eight annual SQLSaturday in Orlando is coming up on September 27th (note, it’s technically our tenth, but my friend Kendal Van Dyke says that #3 & #4 – the ‘tweener’ weekend – shouldn’t count!). Either way, I’m excited that it’s time to start the planning and the work for the event later […]

Notes From SQLSaturday #273

Speaker dinner at Spaghetti Warehouse was packed. Great crowd, not such great service. At 8:45 pm we still had not had a chance to order dinner. With a crowd of 40+ its challenging to get a good venue that can handle the service and provide an environment conducive to networking. Event leaders, think hard about […]

SQLSaturday #273 In Tampa This Weekend

I’m looking forward to the trip to Tampa for SQLSaturday #273 this weekend. I’m driving down this afternoon to beat traffic and have time for a break before going to the speaker party. I have one presentation on the schedule – PCI for the SQL DBA – and the rest of the day will be […]

Presenting at SQLSaturday Tampa

The schedule just went up, I’ll be presenting PCI for the SQL DBA this year. Looking forward to visiting Tampa again, and taking my kids to the nearby science center. Should be a good trip!

See Consolidated Data About SQLSaturday (Events, Sponsors, And Speakers)

Yesterday Kendal Van Dyke posted a file to Skydrive with consolidated information from all the events published so far. He built it by grabbing the individual event feeds and I’m guessing some scraping to come up with a file that is useful. Kudos to Kendal for doing this, it fills a gap that has been […]

Three Hundred!

Just announced on Friday, SQLSaturday #300 will be held in Kansas City, MO, on September 13, 2014 . Everything about that is amazing, but especially the organizers and speakers that put in a lot of hours to make events happen – thank you!

The SQLSaturday Wiki–Revisited

I saw a discussion on Twitter yesterday where Kendal Van Dyke referenced the SQLSaturday wiki as a resource, I thought I’d post a reminder here about it and some thoughts on it as well. The build out of the wiki happened back in July 2010 – here’s my blog post about it. The goal then […]

NFC Tags-Fun, And Maybe Useful at SQLSaturday

Last week I had one of those days when I read something and then heard someone talking about the same thing – in this case the dual reference as about NFC tags. NFC stands for near field communication and is built into some smart phones as a way to interact with the ‘tag’. That lead […]

Notes From SQLSaturday #248

For once the drive from Orlando to Tampa went smoothly, no delays due to accidents or construction or UFO’s, a good start to the weekend! We checked in at the Hilton Garden Inn about 3 miles from the event in what seems to be one of those ‘hotel areas’ that seems to support both the […]

I’m Attending SQLSaturday #248 in Tampa on Nov 9, 2013

I’ll be heading back to Tampa on November 9, 2013 for the BI Edition of SQLSaturday. I’ll be presenting PCI for the SQL DBA and trying to tailor it a little to the BI crowd – mostly around using a lot of caution about expanding the PCI scope when aggregating data. It’s a new/different location […]