Conferences / SeaQL
SeaQL 2026 (SQLSaturday #1140)
Apr 17–18, 2026 · PiXLife Nature Xperience Brouwersdam, Binnenzijde 25, Ouddorp, South Holland, Netherlands
- Conference
- SeaQL Database
- Dates
- Apr 17, 2026 – Apr 18, 2026
- Venue
- PiXLife Nature Xperience Brouwersdam, Binnenzijde 25
- Place
- Ouddorp, South Holland, Netherlands
- Format
- In person
- Status
- Past
- Attendance
- —
- Website
- seaql.nl
- Recorded
- 8 sponsors · 17 speaker appearances
- Notes
- Second edition, organized by Tonie Huizer and Peter Kruis, run as SQLSaturday #1140 (capacity limit 200): full-day pre-con workshop on Friday 17 April (Edwin M Sarmiento, SQL Server HA/DR), then a one-day conference on Saturday 18 April with a keynote and 15 sessions. Speakers from the Sessionize schedule embedded on the SQLSaturday page plus the pre-con; affiliation from the Sessionize tagline where it names an employer. Sponsors are logo links on the SQLSaturday page; names derived from link domains (AMD is the SQLSaturday network's global sponsor).
Ticket prices
| Ticket | Price | Valid until | Notes | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lunch (Saturday) | €25 | — | The SQLSaturday page lists a lunch charge; no other conference-day fee shown | sqlsaturday.com |
Sponsors 8
Platinum 1
- Twintos · Platinum Sponsor
Gold 3
- DevOps Masterminds · Gold Sponsor
- Monin · Gold Sponsor
- Redgate · Gold Sponsor
Silver 3
- DBmarlin · Silver Sponsor
- OptimaData BV · Silver Sponsor
- SQL Brander · Silver Sponsor
Other 1
- AMD · Global Sponsor
Speakers and talks 17
| Speaker | Company | Role | Talk | Links |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Edwin M Sarmiento | — | Keynote | Keynote: Building a Recession-proof Career in the New Era of an AI-Driven Economy | — |
| Bart Vernaillen | — | Speaker | Analyzing a bunch of query plans with PowerShell | — |
| Daniel Hutmacher | Structured Concepts | Speaker | SQL Injection – The Old Dog of Data Security | — |
| Danny de Haan | Redgate | Speaker | Kerberos Authentication and SQL Server: A Deep Dive into Delegation | — |
| Danny Kruge | Schuberg Philis | Speaker | Automating SQL Permissions Scripting for Daily Audits and One-Click Deployment | — |
| Edwin M Sarmiento | — | Workshop | End-to-End SQL Server High Availability and Disaster Recovery | — |
| Iain Dobson | Quorum | Speaker | Database DevOps Safety Harness: Automating Data Quality Gates with Great Expectations and Soda | — |
| Karim Ourtani | Flemish Government | Speaker | SQL Server Change Management: From Ad‑Hoc Scripts to Automated CI/CD Pipelines | — |
| Kellyn Gorman | — | Speaker | Optimizing CI/CD for Hybrid and Cloud Environments with DevOps and AI | — |
| Magnus Ahlkvist | Transmokopter SQL AB | Speaker | Are you drunk SQL Server? Where did that estimate come from? | — |
| Mikael Wedham | — | Speaker | The log, the whole log and nothing but the log | — |
| Mladen Prajdic | — | Speaker | SQL Server 2025 Optimized Locking | — |
| Reitse Eskens | Axians Business Analytics | Speaker | Choosing the Azure SQL DB tier, tales from the trenches | — |
| Sander Stad | Data Masterminds | Speaker | Custom Deployment DSLs: Writing Your Own Terraform/Bicep for SQL Server | — |
| Thomas Hütter | — | Speaker | Window functions in SQL Server - brush up your skills | — |
| Torsten Strauß | — | Speaker | Evaluating Data Compression in SQL Server: Performance, Trade-offs, and Internal | — |
| Uwe Ricken | db Berater GmbH | Speaker | Partitioning in Microsoft SQL Server: A Beginner's Guide | — |