This past Saturday, May 19th marked the 733rd SQL Saturday Event — SQL Saturday #733 – Atlanta. Being my home event, and consistently a large and well-executed event, I look forward to this one every year and also volunteer to help out with room proctoring and any other help that is needed. Since the loss of the GSU Alpharetta Campus as a venue, the event has bounced around looking for a new home. This year, it was hosted at the Alpharetta Campus of Gwinnett Technical College, which I felt was an excellent venue (though not quite as convenient to me as last year’s Duluth Campus).
Like previous years, I felt the event was executed very well — with an army of organizers and volunteers, it seemed like everything was handled well with only minor mishaps here and there. The new location was great and will hopefully end up being a new permanent home for the event. As I was helping to work the event, I didn’t get to attend as many sessions as I would have liked, but everything I attended was excellent and time well spent.
Marco Russo presenting “DAX Optimization Examples” — my favorite session of the day. He easily could’ve filled multiple hours with his content and I look forward to seeing him speak again whenever I next get the opportunity!
Bill Anton presenting “What You Need To Know About Tabular Processing.” Another excellent session in which I picked up a number of good tidbits.
A slide from Bill Anton’s presentation — I look forward to the first bullet point becoming increasingly more true.
The end of day raffle at SQL Saturday 733 from the second floor.
The after party for SQL Saturday was held at the nearby Dave and Busters. This turned out to be an excellent venue and I really enjoyed the party, the game cards and numerous activities made it very different than any other I’d attended!
