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