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...
2023-07-07
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SQLAndy
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.
2023-07-21 (first published: 2023-07-06)
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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...
2023-06-23 (first published: 2023-06-13)
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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...
2022-11-04 (first published: 2022-10-19)
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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...
2022-08-01 (first published: 2022-07-25)
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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...
2022-05-24
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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...
2021-11-19 (first published: 2021-11-14)
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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...
2021-11-17 (first published: 2021-11-10)
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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...
2021-11-10
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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...
2021-09-28
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Getting The Database Name
I run this code to connect to SQL Server 2022 from the command line.
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