SQLSaturday Orlando Notes – Owning Stuff
One of the choices you make as an organizer is whether to buy anything that you want use or give away at the end of the event. Owning nothing...
2019-12-20 (first published: 2019-12-02)
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Andy Warren
SQLSaturday Orlando Notes – Large Printed Schedules
One of the things we’ve done most years in Orlando is to print poster sized schedules. This started out as a supplement to giving everyone a printed schedule and...
2019-12-09
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SQLOrlando 2019
We just had our final event of the year and looking back, not bad at all. No event in June or November, but 18 overall (16 listed below, plus...
2019-12-05
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SQLSaturday Orlando Notes – Cupcakes & Ice Cream
For the past few years we’ve had a a local sponsor provide cupcakes as the “sweet treat”. We started with mid afternoon but found it worked well if we...
2019-11-25
11 reads
SQLSaturday Orlando Notes – Room Location
We hold our event at a local college. The way it works is our contact tries to reserve ALL of the rooms in the building because we will end...
2019-11-18
9 reads
SQLSaturday Orlando Notes – Coffee
I like to say that the goal for any event is to meet the expectations of attendees. The trick is to set the expectations because if you don’t, they...
2019-11-11
24 reads
SQLSaturday Orlando Notes – Kahoot
The last two years we did Family Feud as part of our end of day gathering. Fun, exciting, and energetic are all words I’d use to describe it. Definitely...
2019-11-08 (first published: 2019-10-22)
173 reads
SQLSaturday Orlando Notes – SpeedPASS
This year for the first time in a long time we pre-printed the SpeedPASS for all attendees and we did it on perforated paper. This was really all about...
2019-11-05
50 reads
SQLSaturday Orlando Notes – Post Event Speaker Survey
One of the follow up items I have from the event was to poll speakers on what hotel they used (see my previous post). In jotting down some notes...
2019-11-04
26 reads
SQLSaturday Orlando Notes – Designated Hotel
Almost every year we select an “official” hotel for the event. For those coming in who don’t know the area it’s a way to avoid figuring out what is...
2019-11-03
8 reads
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