Coming this Saturday, upstate rules, the official capitol of New York State is #SQLSat386, in Albany! Check out their event home page for more details of speakers, sponsors, sessions, and registration.  The event will be held at SUNY Albany Campus -  Map, July 25, 2015 at SUNY Albany, 1400 Washington Ave, Albany, NY 12222

They are expecting a great crowd of IT and SQL professionals, with very diverse schedule, and should beat their attendance last year by quite a bit, now that folks know where Albany is on the map!

SQLSaturday is a free, one day training event for SQL Server professionals that provides a great variety of high quality technical sessions presented by 30 local and national experts on SQL Server, and making it all happen through the efforts of SQLSatAlbany organizer, and friend, Ed Pollack, and volunteers, sponsors, and members of the local PASS Chapter, CASSUG. The have several spectacular sessions for everyone including,

SESSIONS:
SQL Server 2012 & 2014
Reporting Services (SSRS)
Analysis Services (SSAS)
Powershell
Business Intelligence
Azure
Security
Performance & Optimization
Professional Development
QA Automation
Monitoring
Replication
.NET
Partitioning
Disaster Recovery

Want to make some new connections while you’re at SQLSaturday? This conference will give you the opportunity to talk to experts that have written books, founded companies, and are considered the best in the field. In addition, you’ll be able to network with our corporate sponsors as well as recruiters. The list of speakers will be updated regularly, so you can fi nd out more about the experts that will attend and contact them if you have any questions or requests.

In addition, they are also having 2 full day pre-cons, Friday July 24th, by SQL MVP BI expert, and personal friend, William E. Pearson  on Practical Self-Service BI with PowerPivot for Excel, and SQL Server Security: Protecting the Data by 25-year IT Pro SQL MVP Thomas Grohser.  Please see the event home page for PreCon details.

Finally, stick around to the end for a chance to win some cool and spectacular sponsored prizes, including, you guessed it, a chance to win (2) two signed copies of HealthySQL - A Comprehensive Guide To Health SQL Server Performance!    Pearl Knowledge Solutions is a proud to be an event sponsor too!  Enjoy the event!

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