SQLSaturday 25 October 10, 2009 – Final Stretch!

Less than two weeks until SQLSaturday 25, and I have lots of stuff to wrap up; however, there’s been some exciting stuff happening in the last couple of weeks.

Attendance is up!

Attendance – Planning to Attend: 95  (as of today)

New Sponsor!

Interworks, Inc has really stepped up to the plate and become a Gold Sponsor for us!  YAY!  The more I hear about this company, the more I like about them.

Student Sessions!

Way back when I agreed to take on this project with Gainesville State College and IESA, it was our intent to make this a student-centered conference as much as possible; unfortunately, things haven’t gone according to plan.  However, we do have two student presentations (and we’re waiting on a few more):

Patrick Taylor: ArcIMS and SQL Server

Jeremy Rylee: Feature Data Object

We’ve also got a full roster of other sessions, which you can view here:

Start Time DBA Development GIS/BI/Special
8:30 AM Trevor Barkhouse Audrey Hammonds Michael Stark
  Deadlock Detection, Troubleshooting, & Prevention The T-SQL Trifecta: Enhancements for Everyone SQL Server 2008 Spatial Data
9:45 AM Neal Waterstreet Robert Cain Sudhanshu Panda
  SQL Server Backups Introduction to SQL Server Integration Services SQL Application in Geographic Information Systems
11:00 AM Trevor Barkhouse Julie Smith Mark Tabladillo
  Leveraging SQLDiag for Efficient Troubleshooting Cool Tricks to Pull from your SSIS Hat— Data Mining Beyond Adventure Works
1:30 PM Stuart Ainsworth Sergey Barskiy Dan Murray
  The Social DBA: Resources for Career Building CLR integration Data Visualization and High Value Low Cost BI
2:45 PM Jeff Ammons Robert Cain College Students
  Data Persistence in a Web Hosted World SQL Server Full Text Searching – An Introduction. Student Showcase Session 1
4:00 PM Chris Semerjian & Allison Ainsworth Cliff Jacobson More College Students
  GIS Certificate Program at IESA DBA vs ORM: Strategies for Data in a Code Focused Student Showcase Session 2

 

And, here comes the pain…

Stuff left to do includes:

  • Follow up with volunteers at IESA to make sure food is ready
  • Speaker dinner arrangements
  • Make sure Speaker shirts are on their way
  • Write my presentation – D’oh!
  • Make sure signage is done properly
  • Remember to breathe
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