This is my first blog in a while and I\u2019m sorry it\u2019s not a technical one.\u00a0 You may be aware but I\u2019m one of the SQLBits organisers which means that for the last few months all my spare time has been devoted to SQLBits organisation.<\/p>\n
We were really pleased with how the event went and all the feedback has been really positive.\u00a0 If you\u2019d like to get involved in helping next year please email us at Helpers@sqlbits.com<\/a> and we\u2019ll add you to the list.\u00a0 We can\u2019t guarantee you\u2019ll get to help all days but every new person who volunteers will at least get offered to help on Saturday.<\/p>\n What we should really be doing now is resting after the busy few months we\u2019ve had but because myself and Jonathan (@Fatherjack) are fools we have decided to run our own event in April 2019.\u00a0 Data in Devon (Formerly known as SQL Saturday Exeter) is running on 26 and 27th April. \u00a0This event is part of the Global Azure Bootcamp and is happening at The Jurys Inn, Exeter, Devon.<\/p>\n Friday 26th April has 5 MVPs running deep dive workshops into topics at the bargain price of \u00a3175 during March where the price goes up to \u00a3200.\u00a0 The workshops are:<\/p>\n –\u00a0BI in Azure by Alex Whittles<\/a> The Data in Devon “main event” will be on Saturday 27th of April with 4 parallel tracks and 7 sessions per track, with expert speakers from the UK, Europe and the USA. Attendance for the Saturday is free and includes all of the training sessions and plenty of coffee and other refreshments to keep you going all day.<\/p>\n Take a look at the session schedule<\/a>\u00a0and then\u00a0sign up while tickets are still available!<\/a><\/p>\n Hopefully you\u2019ll see something of interest and come and join us in the South West of England.\u00a0 If not we hope to see you at another event very soon.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is my first blog in a while and I\u2019m sorry it\u2019s not a technical one.\u00a0 You may be aware but I\u2019m one of the SQLBits organisers which means that for the last few months all my spare time has been devoted to SQLBits organisation. We were really pleased with how the event went and……<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10747,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4331,95577],"coauthors":[57570],"class_list":["post-83579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","tag-events","tag-sqlbits"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83579","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10747"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83579"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83579\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":83581,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83579\/revisions\/83581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83579"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.red-gate.com\/simple-talk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=83579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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