SQL Saturday Birmingham 2019

By Samir Behara on August 5, 2019 • ( 0 )

SQL Saturday Birmingham 2019 was held at the Brock School of Business – Cooney Hall – Samford University on 27th July. The event was a huge success. We had close to 200 folks registered to the event and had a final turnaround of around 150.

If you have not attended a SQL Saturday event before or are not familiar with the concept – It is a free training event for Microsoft Data Platform professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server, Business Intelligence, Application Development, PowerShell and Analytics. It is a great opportunity to listen to some of the best speakers around, interact with the brightest minds and network with the awesome SQL Family.

The event went very smooth and I would like to thank all the attendees, speakers, volunteers and Samford facilities for making this edition of SQL Saturday Birmingham a runaway success.

Big round of thanks and cheers to our event sponsors —

Platinum Sponsor – Rubrik
Gold Sponsor – Sparkhound and ITAC
Bronze Sponsor – Accelebrate and COZYROC
Partner Sponsor – Atlanta MDF
Swag Sponsor – Redgate Software and O’Reilly
Personal Sponsor – Dallas DBAs
Global SQL Saturday Partner – Microsoft Corporation

We had 3 tracks and a total of 18 sessions this time. Based on the community feedback we selected presentations in the below categories during the SQL Saturday event —

Application & Database Development
BI Platform Architecture, Development & Administration
Cloud Application Development & Deployment
Enterprise Database Administration & Deployment
Professional Development

The best part of the event was that all the speakers had packed rooms and there was lot of good discussions during the sessions. Thanks to all the folks who filled up the Event evaluations and it was encouraging to receive positive feedback about the event and the fact that you were able to learn something new.

The Event Presentation slides can be downloaded from —
https://www.sqlsaturday.com/899/Sessions/Schedule.aspx

O’Reilly has provided a free 30-day trial to the O’Reilly Online Learning Platform for all the attendees of SQL Saturday Birmingham.

Please use the code below –
https://learning.oreilly.com/get-learning/?code=SQLS19

Lot of folks have asked me for the Event pics. So here it goes —