SQL Saturday Singapore 2016 - A Grand Success

Dear All,

Can't believe it’s over!!!! It was an awesome awesome SQL Saturday Singapore...There were so many people to thank for the great success of this event.

* Let me start off with YOU - Singapore SQL Community. Without your interest, passion and the enthusiasm we wouldn't have thought of doing a SQL Saturday in first place. Thanks for giving us a good attendance in all our meetups and encouraging us to do this event.

* PASS - Thanks to PASS for giving us a platform to arrange for an event of this scale. Without PASS support, we wouldn't have had the access to so many world class speakers for sure and event wouldn't have been such a success

* Microsoft, our Gold sponsor for the event - Thanks for the tremendous support for the event. Be it providing a venue, arranging food and taking in all our last minute requests. Don't recall how many times I would have disturbed Koh Ming Hao with countless emails and phone calls at odd hours for the event. Thanks to Vivek Ravindran, Tamarai, Harminder Sethi, Prakash Sawant for their priceless support without which this event would not have been possible

* Volunteers - Thanks to the gentle men with the "Red Tee" during the event. We formed a team just few days ago and how well we worked...Thanks for the selfless service rendered in the last 2 days. Thanks to Rehan Rocker, Manjuke Fernando, Vikash Rai, Mohit Niranwal, Abhishek Patel, Anand Raj, Alvin Lau and Sakthish Kumar for your help

* Speakers - Thanks to the overwhelming response for our event. We still wonder how lucky we are to have speakers from United States to Australia travelling 1000s of miles, speakers from the product team and industry experts. Joe young , Pinal Dave, Vinod Kumar M, Denny Cherry, Joey D'Antoni, Glenn Morris, Harminder sethi, James Beresford, Andreas Wolter, Stefan Riedel, Kevin Boles, Krishna Deepak, Subramani- Can't thank you all enough for the wonderful technical sessions

Special Thanks to Andreas Wolter for making a successful pre conference event too.
Special Thanks to Kevin Boles for covering an additional session in the last minute
Special Thanks to Harminder Sethi for taking a 90 minute session when one of the previously announced speakers couldn't make it

* Sponsors - Thanks to all our Sponsors - Gill Technologies, Red Gate, Devart, Sarpedon Quality labs for the raffle gifts and all the support for the event.

* Last but not least - Our Team, Singapore SQL Saturday Team -Dharmendra Keshari, Khilitchandra Prajapati, Sarbjit Singh Gill. Yes, little weird to thank ourselves but still thanks for surviving the grueling last few weeks and for all the efforts :)

Once again, Thank you every one and we promise to be back stronger, bigger and better next year!!! #sqlsat549

More photos of the event can be found here.  

SQL Saturday Singapore 2016 - Speaker List

Dear All,

We are extremely happy to announce our list of speakers for the first ever SQL Saturday Event in Singapore!!!

Topic	Speaker
SQL Server 2016 Stretch Database: top to bottom	Joe Young
SQL Server 2016 – The Evolution of In-Memory Technologies	Andreas Wolter
Secrets of SQL Server - Database Worst Practices	Pinal Dave
Security with SQL Server - Things you never knew	Vinod Kumar
Know What Your Code is Doing to SQL Server!	Kevin Boles
Data Warehouse load performance with SSIS and SQL Server	David Peter Hansen
Data Storage and Analytics with Azure Data Lake	Glenn Morris
Creating High Performance Tabular Models	James Beresford
Bleed Blue for the clouds – SQL Azure	Krishna Deepak
Think & work like a Data Scientist with SQL 2016 R	Subramani Paramasivam
Automated and Repeatable Test Cases for SQL Server Development.	Stefan Riedel
Index Internals	Denny Cherry & Joey D'Antoni
To Be Announced	Dharmendra Keshari
To Be Announced	Khilitchandra Prajapati
To Be Announced	Sarbjit Singh Gill

A terrific line up of world class speakers and interesting topics indeed!!! Great opportunity for the Singapore SQL Community to learn, network and interact with the stalwarts of SQL World. Go ahead and register for the event at https://www.sqlsaturday.com/549/registernow.aspx
 

SQL Saturday Singapore 2016 - Speaker Announcement - Vinod Kumar

Dear All,
 Here we go for the second speaker announcement for SQL Saturday Singapore.

 We are very proud to announce, Vinod Kumar from Microsoft, India as the second speaker of the first ever "SQL Saturday” event @ Singapore. Vinod Kumar has worked with SQL Server extensively since joining the industry over more than 17 years back. Working on various versions from SQL Server 7.0, Oracle 7.3 and other database technologies - he now works with Microsoft Technology Center (MTC) as Technology Architect. With extensive database, BI and application background, he currently helps customers maximize on the investments on technologies to solve real world business and technology integration problems. Speaker in major conferences like TechEd India (12 yrs.), TechNet, MSDN, Azure Conference etc.

Vinod will be delivering a session on the topic “Security with SQL Server - Things you never knew” for our event.
On behalf of Singapore SQL Server Pass chapter, we extend a very warm welcome to Vinod Kumar.

 It is golden opportunity for Singapore SQL Community to gain in depth technical knowledge directly from an expert from Microsoft. A chance surely not to be missed. Go ahead and register ASAP at https://www.sqlsaturday.com/549/registernow.aspx. Do signup for lunch and snacks which comes at a nominal fee of S$ 12. Attendees signing up for lunch, get a complementary T shirt and are also eligible for other freebies too. Please support our event by signing
up for lunch. Thanks!!!

 Regards,
 Singapore SQL Pass Chapter – Singapore SQL Saturday organizing committee.