Wayne Sheffield

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In the Richmond, VA area, I am the organizer for our SQL Saturdays. Among other jobs that this entails, this also means that I am working with SQLSaturday SpeedPASSes. SpeedPASS History According to the SQLSaturday FAQ, the SpeedPASS is your admission ticket to a SQL Saturday event. It contains a name badge, admission ticket, lunch […]

Announcing Seattle Freecon 2017 Are you going to the PASS Summit this year? (and if not… why not?) Are you coming in to Seattle on or before Tuesday? Are you not attending any of the wonderful precons at the PASS Summit on Tuesday? Then I have a great deal for you. Come attend the Seattle […]

SQLSaturday SpeedPASSes I’ve been working with running SQLSaturdays in the Richmond, VA area for several years now. It seems that every year, I end up blogging something new. Frequently, this ends up being a script of some kind to help me out. This post follows this theme by introducing a script for working with SQLSaturday […]

SQL Saturdays are a neat idea – they’re a day-long event of free training, encompassing several one-hour sessions. These events will normally have 5 or 6 time slots during the entire day. Therefore, if the event has 6 concurrent sessions, that is 36 hours of training material. There is usually more than one event going […]

Are you going to the PASS Summit this year? (and if not… why not?) Are you coming in to Seattle on or before Monday? Are you not attending any of the wonderful precons at the PASS Summit on Monday? Then I have a great deal for you. Free SQL Training! Several friends have teamed up […]

I’m happy to announce that I’ll be going on a Central Texas SQL Tour in mid-August. First up is the San Antonio SQL Saturday – I’ve been selected to be a speaker. This is really special because this is San Antonio’s first ever SQL Saturday!!! I’ll be presenting what is probably my favorite presentation – […]

One of the nightmare scenarios that a SQL Saturday organizer faces is selecting a speaker that is already going to another event on the same day. The speaker can only be at one event… and the site doesn’t really help us out with letting us know about these over-committed speakers. So, I wrote this little […]

You know, these 1 hour sessions that are at most SQL Saturdays are just too short sometimes – you just get going and bang! The times up. There’s only so much material that can be presented in just one hour. Recognizing this, last year my friend Jason Brimhall and I teamed up and created an […]

You know, these 1 hour sessions that are at most SQL Saturdays are just too short sometimes – you just get going and bang! The times up. There’s only so much material that can be presented in just one hour. Recognizing this, last year my friend Jason Brimhall and I teamed up and created an […]

You know, these 1 hour sessions that are at most SQL Saturdays are just too short sometimes – you just get going and bang! The times up. There’s only so much material that can be presented in just one hour. Recognizing this, last year my friend Jason Brimhall and I teamed up and created an […]