When I was new to driving in the States, one of the signs that would make me end up with a panic attack was the ‘Detour’ sign. I grew up in a community that was largely pedestrian, and I developed my road sense mostly by walking. If I walk down a street – chances are… Continue reading Detours
I was part of a very interesting chat on twitter on how to find funding for user groups and SQL Saturdays. The conversation was initiated by Brent Ozar with an RT of Andy Warren’s blog post stating that running chapters is a lot of hard work. It was followed up with an active discussion on funding… Continue reading User Group Funding: Twitter Chat summary
The sudden and sad demise of the #sqlmcm program had me thinking on many levels..particularly on future goals and aspirations, and on how to market myself. To give an introduction of some sort – in my younger years I was not particularly in favor of degrees or certifications. I was strongly of the belief that… Continue reading Finding new goals…
This year was SQL Saturday #5 in a row for us at Louisville. It was by far the best event we have had and we greatly enjoyed hosting it. Below are some things that worked and did not work this time: What worked: 1 The location – ideally situated, no parking hassles, walking distance from… Continue reading SQL Saturday 2013 Louisville – A Recap
My friend Karen and me decided to drive out to Richmond and attend their SQL Saturday this past week. We have had several people from Richmond and the Washington DC area attend our events – we wanted to go there too. The other reasons were that the speaker line up was very attractive and there… Continue reading SQL Saturday Richmond – 2013
I had the opportunity to go on yet another SQL Cruise in 2013. This time our trip was to the Carribean Isles – St Maarten, US Virgin Islands and the Bahamas. In addition to some great opportunities for training and networking the cruise was a relaxing and enriching experience with great food and great opportunities… Continue reading SQL Cruise 2013
I attended SQL Saturday 154 at St Louis last weekend. I was particularly keen to attend this event since it was organized by my friends at St Louis (Sanil Mhatre,Julie Bloominquest, Kathie Kellenberger, and others) who have been regular attendees at all of our events at Louisville. It was also their first sql saturday. I arrived… Continue reading SQL Saturday 154 – St Louis
We had our fifth SQL Saturday at Louisville this year. It was an awesome day of free training and networking, with a record attendance of over 200 people and 35 sessions on 7 tracks. Our venue was at the School of Business at University of Louisville. Some of the lessons learnt and experiences we had… Continue reading SQL Saturday 2012 – Lessons learnt
Most organizers including me usually write one post covering the entire event. This year I decided to break it up into multiple posts simply because the lessons are many and the audience for each post is different – a post on budgeting would probably interest organizers a lot more than an attendee. This post is… Continue reading SQL Saturday 122 – Addressing attendee feedback
We had our fifth sql saturday at Louisville – this time at a much bigger location, the school of business at University of Louisville. We also had a day of pre cons (our first pre con was by Kevin Kline last year, and was moderately successful with an attendance of 23 people. This year we… Continue reading SQL Saturday Louisville 2012 Pre Cons – An organizational perspective
Curious..about data 