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title: "SQL Saturday"
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-Welcome to SQL Saturday, the data platform and SQL Server community franchise for technical events. We have a list of upcoming events below as well as reserved dates. There are also other events from different sources that are of interest to the data professional.
+Welcome to SQL Saturday, the free communityevent franchise for database professionals and those working with data across any platform. We have lists for:
+- upcoming events
+- reserved dates
+- other non-SQL Saturday events
If you want to know more about events from an organizer, speaker, sponsor, or attendee standpoint, sign up for our [mailing list](http://eepurl.com/hwVBKn)