{"id":79,"date":"2014-09-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sqlhammer.com\/blog\/ramping-up-for-sqlsaturday-320-raleigh-nc"},"modified":"2026-03-18T21:51:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T21:51:11","slug":"ramping-up-for-sqlsaturday-320-raleigh-nc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/2014\/09\/05\/ramping-up-for-sqlsaturday-320-raleigh-nc\/","title":{"rendered":"Ramping up for SQLSaturday #320 – Raleigh, NC"},"content":{"rendered":"

In just a couple of hours I will be driving down to Raleigh for tomorrow\u2019s SQLSaturday #320. It looks like a great line up with far too many great sessions scheduled to attend them all. Just a few minutes ago I was inputting my first desired sessions and secondaries, for when I change my mood last-minute, into the PASS Events<\/a>\u00a0app. If you aren\u2019t familiar with it, I recommend the download to your phone or tablet. PASS Events is powered by Guidebook<\/a>\u00a0with is a really convenient way to keep up on the schedules and pre-plan your day. Brent Ozar (t<\/a> | b<\/a>) wrote a fairly complete overview of the features here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

But I digress. There are a lot of big names speaking tomorrow and a lot of really interesting session abstracts. So much that I might go back to my plan and add a\u00a0tertiary<\/a>\u00a0session\u00a0for each time block. Here is what I\u2019m planning to attend,\u00a0until I redo it again.<\/p>\n

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On the topic of session scheduling. As seen above, the sqlsaturday<\/a>\u00a0site has a good schedule builder as well. You just login into the site, select the page for the event that you are going to attend, and then you will find the builder in the menu bar. This is ideal for tweaking things before the event but I moved my plans into the PASS Event app for ease of use while I\u2019m in attendance and don\u2019t want to deal with potential formatting or scrolling frustrations on my smart phone.<\/p>\n

If you are reading this, I hope that I get to see you tomorrow.<\/p>\n

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\"\"Written by Derik Hammer of SQL Hammer<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Derik is a data professional focusing on Microsoft SQL Server. His passion focuses around high-availability<\/a>, disaster recovery<\/a>, continuous integration, and automated maintenance. his experience has spanned long-term database administration, consulting, and\u00a0entrepreneurial ventures.<\/p>\n

Derik gives the SQL community credit for plugging the gaps in his knowledge when he was a junior DBA and, now that his skills have matured, started SQLHammer.com<\/a> as one small way to give back and continue the cycle of shared learning.<\/p>\n

Derik is the owner and lead author of SQL Hammer, a Microsoft SQL Server resource<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more information, visit http:\/\/www.sqlhammer.com<\/a>. Follow Derik on Twitter<\/a> for SQL tips and chat<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In just a couple of hours I will be driving down to Raleigh for tomorrow\u2019s SQLSaturday #320. It looks like a great line up with far too many great sessions scheduled to attend them all. Just a few minutes ago I was inputting my first desired sessions and secondaries, for when I change my mood […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":528,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sqlhammer.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}