So I was at the SQLSaturday event in Manchester, United Kingdom on the 15th July 2017.

According the SQLSaturday website,

SQLSaturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server. Admittance to this event is free, and most costs are covered by donations and sponsorships.

 

I would, therefore, like to take the opportunity to thank all the sponsors and organisers who made the event possible.

I am writing this short article to highlight some of the few things I found out about the whole event which were a bit contrary to my expectation.

Before the event, I thought the whole program was just about SQL. Though I do use SQL a part of my Data Science job, my main motives of going to the event were

1. To attend my first SQL event in the North-West (Manchester, United Kingdom)
2. To see how wide SQL goes in terms of Database Administration and the whole indepth stuffs about databases

However, when I arrived and also from the programme outlined, i discovered the topics covered there not only about SQL but a whole range of relevant trendy topics which included

1. Data Science
2. DevOps
3. Business Intelligence
4. R

and many others.

The full schedule can be found here: SQL Saturday Manchester July 15 Schedule

I learnt a lot more stuffs with new perspectives particularly

1. Azure Machine Learning framework,
2. Azure Data Lakes
3. Incorporation of R into SQL Server 2016 and SQL Server 2017 as well as Python (which means you can now run your R and Python Predictive Models right inside SQL Server 2016 (for R Scripts) and SQL Server 2017 (for both R and Python Scripts). Check the Microsoft Getting Started Documentation on Data Science using SQL Server
4. DevOps
5. Incorporating R into PowerBI and navigating external authentications when using R to call third party external services for usage in PowerBI
6. And of course, there were a lot of networking, that is , meeting like-minded people and sharing ideas and experience.
7. And I won a raffle of LEGO GAMES which was one of the many prizes which were given by the sponsors. This is my first prize I have ever won in an open raffle 🙂 Thank you Sponsors!

In all, it was a well organised, power-packed event with lots of valuable information, and God-willing, I will be very much happy to attend next year’s one!

Well done Team SQLSaturday!

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