I was thrilled (and surprised) to see an issue open on the SQL Saturday site for St Louis earlier this year. I have been hoping they would run another event as there has been a strong community there for years. SQL Saturday St Louis 2025 is coming on Oct 18,...| SQLSaturday Public Documents
Working with sponsors is always a little stressful, especially these days with budgets and funding receiving lots of scrutiny. However, I have good news. SQL Saturday completed a contract for FY2026 H1 with Microsoft and AMD to sponsor all (fingers crossed) events from July - Dec 2025. Microsoft works on...| SQLSaturday Public Documents
As I was sitting on a plane Wednesday afternoon, I got a text that the SQL Saturday site was down. I checked from my mobile and sure enough I got a ERROR_PROBE_NXRECORD error. Strange as nothing has changed in quite some time. When I landed, I fired up my laptop...| SQLSaturday Public Documents
SQL Saturday Austin 2025 was held recently and it was a really fun event. Thanks to Procure SQL for organizing and running this event. They had a recap on their blog and I had one as well. Conor Cunningham gave a keynote and I wrote about it. It was fantastic...| SQLSaturday Public Documents
SQL Saturday Joinville 2025 was held recently and it was a great event with over 300 people attending. I want to thank the organizers and volunteers for their hard work in making this event a success. A few images from the event: Joiinville Photos Reminders I also want to remind...| SQLSaturday Public Documents
I’m late, but I am finally getting to a review of 2024. I meant to do this at the end of the year, but I was buried in personal stuff. Overall, I think SQL Saturday saw a little growth in 2024, though still not back to the levels we saw...| SQLSaturday Public Documents
I filed our 2024 tax return with the US IRS today. This is simple and easy as we have less than $50,000 we’ve raised. Reminders I also want to remind people that SQL Saturday is an independent US 501.c.3 corporation organized as a public charity. We are not owned by,...| SQLSaturday Public Documents
I came back to work today to find an unexpected bonus for SQL Saturday. We recevied another donation from America Online Giving for $425, which I greatly appreciate. We had a few more expenses last year with email services and bank fees. We also covered a missing sponsorship for an...| SQLSaturday Public Documents
I love seeing the growth of SQL Saturday in different places. The last few years have seen quite a few events take place in South America, and specifically Peru, where Juan Manuel Rafael Fabian has run events in many locations. The latest was Lima a few weeks ago. The event...| SQLSaturday Public Documents
I went to send a newsletter out around the PASS Data Community Summit and found that I couldn’t send anything. The mailing list had grown beyond 500 members and Mailchimp paused our ability to send. Grrrr I started looking around, and found Sender.net, but they weren’t a lot cheaper than...| SQLSaturday Public Documents
I made a change today to the website. I changed the description for SQL Saturday to: “Welcome to SQL Saturday, the free community event franchise for database professionals and those working with data across any platform.” It used to say: I’ve had a few people ask if they could accept...| SQLSaturday Public Documents
We received another USD$150 donation from Benevity, which is fantastic. While we do not have many expenses at SQL Saturday, we do occassionally loan money to events in anticipation of sponsorship being paid. Timing can sometimes be an issue with vendors paying and organizers spending money to prepare for an...| SQLSaturday Public Documents
SQL Saturday Houston is back! We are planning SQL Saturday Houston 2024 (#1098), with a date of December 7, 2024. We are looking for speakers, sponsors, and volunteers. And, of course, attendees. Register today and come join us on Dec 7. Reminders I also want to remind people that SQL...| SQLSaturday Public Documents
For a long time I’ve had a menu at the top of each SQL Saturday event. This has looked like this: This has worked well, with a “return” below each section. That was a design decision that made sense to me. Each section had this below it, which you can...| SQLSaturday Public Documents
I started university in 1985 at Syracuse University. I’d never been there prior to that summer, but my Dad had lived near there, and they had a fantastic computer science school. I relied on that rep to choose a school, though I wish now I’d picked a smaller school in...| SQLSaturday Public Documents
Most events pick a schedule from the submissions they receive from speakers. However, that is a limited set of topics, and reflects what speakers are interested in (or they think you are interested in), not necessarily what a group of people are interested in. Steve Rezhener from LA had a...| SQLSaturday Public Documents
I am pleased to announce the VMWare/Broadcom has agreed to sponsor a number of SQL Saturdays in 2024. They have allocated funds from their marketing budget and are working with many of the currently scheduled events to provide support. VMWare was a strong sponsor of our events prior to the...| SQLSaturday Public Documents
I filed the SQL Saturday Corporation tax return as a Form 990-N today. This is a short form filing for organizations that have less than USD$50,000 in revenue. That suits SQL Saturday, as we raised only $225 in donations. We do escrow money from sponsors, but this isn’t revenue as...| SQLSaturday Public Documents
Some of you probably know that the SQL Saturday website and the corporate SQL Saturday website run from GitHub. We have repos for the main site and the corporate one, and all of the code that produces these sites is stored there. We have a CI/CD process that takes changes...| SQLSaturday Public Documents
Welcome to the SQLSaturday blog, which has links and documents related to the SQL Saturday brand and the non profit corporation. We have a mailing list for organizers, attendees, or speakers to get information about the brand and events. You can sign up here: [http://eepurl.com/hwVBKn](http://eepurl.com/hwVBKn). Please forward this to others...| SQLSaturday Public Documents
Welcome to the August 2025 SQL Saturday Update. This month we have a few Upcoming Events News Recent Blog Posts Every year since the pandemic I’m optimistic about the number of events growing, and to date this has come true. I’ve been surprised by a few events every year, and...| SQLSaturday Public Documents