I used to spend the 4th of July weekend (or week) in Austin with some buddy’s when we were in our 20s. There was so much to do and enjoy while there it is exciting to go back to this great city. Not only that, but there are some really good SQL Server experts and community organizers in that city – John Sterrett, Jim Murphy, SQLServerIO (Wes Brown – hope he is there), AJ Mendo and more. Catching up with these people will be refreshing.
The event is on Jan31st at Wingate by Wyndham Round Rock Hotel and Conference Center 1209 N IH 35, Round Rock, TX 78664
THIS YEAR THERE ARE 2 OFFICIAL SQL SATURDAY PRECON'S ON FRIDAY JANUARY 30th, 2015. TICKETS WILL SELL OUT QUICKLY SO MAKE SURE YOU REGISTER TO SPEND THE DAY WITH SOME OF SQL SERVER'S GREATS!
BECOME AN ENTERPRISE DBA WITH SEAN AND JEN MCCOWN 
MURDER THEY WROTE WITH JASON BRIMHALL AND WAYNE SHEFFIELD 
Here is the emailed schedule:
Track | Starts | Session Title | Speaker |
Business Intelligence | 08:30 AM | Registrations | SQLSaturday 362 |
Business Intelligence | 09:00 AM | Capture Change and Apply it with CDC & SSIS | Steve Wake |
Business Intelligence | 10:15 AM | Getting started with Tabular Analysis Services | Thomas LeBlanc |
Business Intelligence | 11:30 AM | 15 Quick Tips for SSIS Performance | Tim Mitchell |
Business Intelligence | 12:30 PM | Learn How To Build A Golden Record for Any Subject Over Lunch! | Gene Webb |
Business Intelligence | 02:15 PM | Writing Your First BimlScript | David Stein |
Business Intelligence | 03:30 PM | Change Data Capture & Change Tracking Deep Dive | Kevin Hazzard |
Business Intelligence | 04:00 PM | XML & SQL: Best Frenemies Forever | Richard Heim |
Business Intelligence | 05:15 PM | Raffle | SQLSaturday 362 |
DBA, Automation | 09:00 AM | DBA Toolbox: Surviving A Disaster | AJ Mendo |
DBA, Automation | 10:15 AM | SQL Server: Monitoring disk usage | Daniel Janik |
DBA, Automation | 11:30 AM | Beginning Automation with Powershell | Amy Herold |
DBA, Automation | 12:30 PM | Embarcadero - Lunch Sponsorship Session | John Sterrett |
DBA, Automation | 02:15 PM | Database Release Management: Tips to help organize it | TJay Belt |
DBA, Automation | 03:30 PM | SQL Server Internals | Naomi Williams |
DBA, Automation | 04:00 PM | SQL Server Bingo – Install, Migration & Config | Mindy Curnutt |
DBA, Automation | 05:15 PM | Raffle | SQLSaturday 362 |
DBA, Cloud | 09:00 AM | SQL Server Foreign Keys – De-mystifying the Rest of the Story | Mike Byrd |
DBA, Cloud | 10:15 AM | Getting Started with SQL Server in the Cloud with Microsoft Azure | Anil Mahadev |
DBA, Cloud | 11:30 AM | SQL 2012 Extended Events | Jason Brimhall |
DBA, Cloud | 12:30 PM | Amazon Web Service - Lunch Sponsorship Session | John Sterrett |
DBA, Cloud | 02:15 PM | No DR Site?! No problem!! Enhance your SQL Server HA/DR capabilities using Windows Azure | Kal Yella |
DBA, Cloud | 03:30 PM | SQL Server Statistics – What Are The Chances? | Lori Edwards |
DBA, Cloud | 04:00 PM | Introduction to Wait Types and Response Time Analysis | Janis Griffin |
DBA, Cloud | 05:15 PM | Raffle | SQLSaturday 362 |
DBA, Security | 09:00 AM | Turbocharge Your Career With a Learning Plan | Andy W |
DBA, Security | 10:15 AM | CIS Benchmarks – A Guide to SQL Server Security | Nancy Hidy Wilson |
DBA, Security | 11:30 AM | SQL Watchdog - find out instantly when SQL change | Michael Bourgon |
DBA, Security | 12:30 PM | Cisco - Lunch Sponsorship Session | John Sterrett |
DBA, Security | 02:15 PM | SQL Security Best Practices & Shrinking Your Attack Surface | Matthew Brimer |
DBA, Security | 03:30 PM | SQL Injection | Kevin Boles |
DBA, Security | 04:00 PM | Securing Your SQL Environment | Tim Radney |
DBA, Security | 05:15 PM | Raffle | SQLSaturday 362 |
Development | 08:30 AM | Registrations | SQLSaturday 362 |
Development | 09:00 AM | Parameter Sniffing the Good and the Bad | Lance Tidwell |
Development | 10:15 AM | 5 TSQL Commands I've Been Missing | Jason Carter |
Development | 11:30 AM | The Real Value of Name-Value Pairs: Using PIVOT and UNPIVOT | Kevin Wilkie |
Development | 12:30 PM | Women in Technology Round Table Discussion | Rie Irish |
Development | 02:15 PM | Windowing Functions | Timothy Costello |
Development | 03:30 PM | Turbo Boost Performance: In Memory Tables index optimizations | Konstantin Melamud |
Development | 04:00 PM | T-SQL Throwdown | Hakim Ali |
Development | 05:15 PM | Raffle | SQLSaturday 362 |
Thunderdome | 09:00 AM | Introduction to Powershell cmdlets for DBAs | Jennifer McCown |
Thunderdome | 10:15 AM | Query Store - A New SQL Query Tuning Feature | Conor Cunningham |
Thunderdome | 11:30 AM | Increase your SSIS productivity with Biml | Reeves Smith |
Thunderdome | 12:30 PM | Microsoft - Sponsor Lunch Session | John Sterrett |
Thunderdome | 02:15 PM | SQL Server 2014 In Memory technologies - In Memory OLTP (aka Hekaton) & ColumnStore | Reinaldo Kibel |
Thunderdome | 03:30 PM | Table Vars & Temp Tables - What you NEED to Know! | Wayne Sheffield |
Thunderdome | 04:00 PM | AlwaysOn Live Deployment | Ryan Adams |
Thunderdome | 05:15 PM | Raffle | SQLSaturday 362 |
