SQLSaturday is the home for one day free technical events https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/ I’m late with this, and I apologize. This year started off quickly for me and I hadn’t had the energy to look back at 2025. Since things were running smoothly and we had no financial issues, I just kept putting it off. Not a good excuse, but it was the... Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 -0400 https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2026-05-20-finances/ https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2026-05-20-finances/ I have to file annual tax returns for the SQL Saturday charitable foundation with the US IRS each year. We haven’t ever raised more than US$50,000 so this has been a simple postcard filing. This year was much of the same, but the website changed a little and added more... Thu, 05 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0500 https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2026-03-05-2025taxes/ https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2026-03-05-2025taxes/ Each year I contact Redgate Software to discuss their support for the annual PASS Data Community Summit. Redgate has been a long-time supporter of the event, and this year they have generously provided me with a number of free tickets to give away to event organizers. At the start of... Thu, 08 Jan 2026 00:00:00 -0500 https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2026-01-08-passticket/ https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2026-01-08-passticket/ The last four years have seen a successful reboot of the SQL Saturday franchise. After Redgate Software donated the brand to a new independent nonprofit corporation in late 2020, we have run 107 events in many locations around the world, with hundreds of speakers inspiring tens of thousands of attendees.... Wed, 26 Nov 2025 00:00:00 -0500 https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2025-11-26-evolvingsqlsat/ https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2025-11-26-evolvingsqlsat/ I received a last minute request from an organizer to update their site. I tend to get a lot of organizers asking for updates, as opposed to building their own pull request, which is fine. It takes me a few minutes (usually) and I’m happy to help. In this case,... Mon, 29 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0400 https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2025-09-29-fixing-a-bug/ https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2025-09-29-fixing-a-bug/ The SQL Saturday Charity received another incredible donation from the New England SQL User Group, which should fund most of our operations for the next year. After another amazing SQL Saturday in Boston, I was presented with a generous check from the organizers. Huge thanks to sponsors and the New... Mon, 22 Sep 2025 00:00:00 -0400 https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2025-09-22-donation/ https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2025-09-22-donation/ Welcome to the August 2025 SQL Saturday Update. This month we have a few Upcoming Events News Recent Blog Posts Every year since the pandemic I’m optimistic about the number of events growing, and to date this has come true. I’ve been surprised by a few events every year, and... Fri, 22 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0400 https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2025-08-22-sqlsatupdate/ https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2025-08-22-sqlsatupdate/ I was thrilled (and surprised) to see an issue open on the SQL Saturday site for St Louis earlier this year. I have been hoping they would run another event as there has been a strong community there for years. SQL Saturday St Louis 2025 is coming on Oct 18,... Wed, 13 Aug 2025 00:00:00 -0400 https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2025-08-13-stlouis/ https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2025-08-13-stlouis/ Working with sponsors is always a little stressful, especially these days with budgets and funding receiving lots of scrutiny. However, I have good news. SQL Saturday completed a contract for FY2026 H1 with Microsoft and AMD to sponsor all (fingers crossed) events from July - Dec 2025. Microsoft works on... Wed, 02 Jul 2025 00:00:00 -0400 https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2025-07-02-mscontract/ https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2025-07-02-mscontract/ As I was sitting on a plane Wednesday afternoon, I got a text that the SQL Saturday site was down. I checked from my mobile and sure enough I got a ERROR_PROBE_NXRECORD error. Strange as nothing has changed in quite some time. When I landed, I fired up my laptop... Thu, 08 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400 https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2025-05-08-domainrenewal/ https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2025-05-08-domainrenewal/ SQL Saturday Austin 2025 was held recently and it was a really fun event. Thanks to Procure SQL for organizing and running this event. They had a recap on their blog and I had one as well. Conor Cunningham gave a keynote and I wrote about it. It was fantastic... Mon, 05 May 2025 00:00:00 -0400 https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2025-05-05-austinrecap/ https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2025-05-05-austinrecap/ SQL Saturday Joinville 2025 was held recently and it was a great event with over 300 people attending. I want to thank the organizers and volunteers for their hard work in making this event a success. A few images from the event: Joiinville Photos Reminders I also want to remind... Mon, 07 Apr 2025 00:00:00 -0400 https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2025-04-07-joinvillephotos/ https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2025-04-07-joinvillephotos/ I’m late, but I am finally getting to a review of 2024. I meant to do this at the end of the year, but I was buried in personal stuff. Overall, I think SQL Saturday saw a little growth in 2024, though still not back to the levels we saw... Wed, 05 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500 https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2025-03-05-2024reveiew/ https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2025-03-05-2024reveiew/ I filed our 2024 tax return with the US IRS today. This is simple and easy as we have less than $50,000 we’ve raised. Reminders I also want to remind people that SQL Saturday is an independent US 501.c.3 corporation organized as a public charity. We are not owned by,... Tue, 04 Mar 2025 00:00:00 -0500 https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2025-03-04-taxreturn/ https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2025-03-04-taxreturn/ I came back to work today to find an unexpected bonus for SQL Saturday. We recevied another donation from America Online Giving for $425, which I greatly appreciate. We had a few more expenses last year with email services and bank fees. We also covered a missing sponsorship for an... Thu, 02 Jan 2025 00:00:00 -0500 https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2025-01-02-donation/ https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2025-01-02-donation/ I love seeing the growth of SQL Saturday in different places. The last few years have seen quite a few events take place in South America, and specifically Peru, where Juan Manuel Rafael Fabian has run events in many locations. The latest was Lima a few weeks ago. The event... Fri, 13 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0500 https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2024-12-13-lima2024/ https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2024-12-13-lima2024/ I went to send a newsletter out around the PASS Data Community Summit and found that I couldn’t send anything. The mailing list had grown beyond 500 members and Mailchimp paused our ability to send. Grrrr I started looking around, and found Sender.net, but they weren’t a lot cheaper than... Tue, 03 Dec 2024 00:00:00 -0500 https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2024-12-03-emailissues/ https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2024-12-03-emailissues/ I made a change today to the website. I changed the description for SQL Saturday to: “Welcome to SQL Saturday, the free community event franchise for database professionals and those working with data across any platform.” It used to say: I’ve had a few people ask if they could accept... Thu, 24 Oct 2024 00:00:00 -0400 https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2024-10-24-description/ https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2024-10-24-description/ We received another USD$150 donation from Benevity, which is fantastic. While we do not have many expenses at SQL Saturday, we do occassionally loan money to events in anticipation of sponsorship being paid. Timing can sometimes be an issue with vendors paying and organizers spending money to prepare for an... Wed, 11 Sep 2024 00:00:00 -0400 https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2024-09-11-donation/ https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2024-09-11-donation/ SQL Saturday Houston is back! We are planning SQL Saturday Houston 2024 (#1098), with a date of December 7, 2024. We are looking for speakers, sponsors, and volunteers. And, of course, attendees. Register today and come join us on Dec 7. Reminders I also want to remind people that SQL... Thu, 29 Aug 2024 00:00:00 -0400 https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2024-08-29-houston/ https://blog.sqlsaturday.com/2024-08-29-houston/