SQLSaturday #271 Albuquerque

Saturday I had the privilege to present a session at SQLSaturday #271 in Albuquerque, NM. This was the 2nd year in a row that I have presented at the SQLSaturday in Albuquerque and I love going back each time because Keith Tate, Meredith Ryan and the whole ABQSQL crew do a great job putting on this event. This year the event was in a different location that was pretty amazing looking and the spaces they made available were great too. My session was at the very beginning of the day at 8am, so I had to make sure I didn't party too much the night before at the Speaker/Volunteer party. Speaking of which, that party was held at a local micro brewery and we even had a room that with a glass wall so that we could see all of the beer vats. Beer was great and I even shared this with my wife and son who traveling with me to this event to make it into a mini-vacation from Thursday - Sunday.

Was awesome to spend a few days in ABQ this time as I drove in for last year's event on Friday and left right as the event finished on Saturday. This time with the family we were able to go up to the Sandia Peak Tramway, visit Old Town Albuquerque and Petroglyph National Monument. All great places to visit and always nice to learn about another area of the country!

Back to the SQLSaturday event itself, things started a bit slow (it is a Saturday morning so this is expected), but quickly there were over 100 attendees going to sessions throughout the day. Since my session was first thing I expected that I would have a lower attendance, and while I only had 10 attendees in the room they all commented to me afterwards that they enjoyed it and learned something new, so that makes it all worthwhile! Here is a link to download the file that all of the content from my "Master the Date Dimension Like a Time Lord" session. For those that were not at SQLSaturday #271 and may have seen this presentation in the past, I have updated it to make the script to generate the date dimension for both SQL 2008 and SQL 2012. I also took sometime to clean up some of the code to be more SQL centric instead of Oracle that it was originally written for. I will continue to tweak this script and the presentation over time, so keep your eyes here for future updates to the scripts!

Thanks again to the Albuquerque SQL group and I look forward to coming back again in the future!