Data for SQL Saturday events is maintained via the sqlsaturday.com website. The site makes available an XML feed for each event which includes all of the basic information for the event, including information about the event, venue, sponsors, speakers, and sessions. The data is available freely from the SQL Saturday website without the need to log in or authenticate to the site.
While getting data for an individual event is pretty straightforward (thanks to the handy XML file), there are some nuances to the process and the data which complicate things somewhat.
The SQL Saturday Website Upgrade
The most notable factor is when the event occurred relative to the SQL Saturday website upgrade. The website upgrade went live at the beginning of April, 2015. For events that were created and occurred before this time, their data would need to be upgrade or recreated in the new site (I’m not sure what process they followed, but it was not smooth for historical events). For anything post-upgrade, those events would natively exist in the new system, so the data will generally be better and more complete.
