Niels Berglund

nielsberglund.com

Niels is Software Architect at Derivco in Durban, and he is a SQL Server Data Platform MVP. He is a published author and acclaimed speaker at industry conferences. His technology interests are databases, especially SQL Server, where he works closely with Microsoft, streaming data, Kafka, and data analysis. You can find his blog at: https://nielsberglund.com.

Previous Sessions

Analyze Billions of Rows of Data in Real-Time Using Azure Data Explorer

In this demo-filled session we get an overview of Azure Data Explorer, which is a fast, fully managed data analytics service for real-time analysis on large volumes of data streaming from applications, websites, IoT devices, and more. We look at how to ingest data, as well as query in real-time against billions of rows with sub-second latency.

ksqlDB - The Real-Time Streaming Database

In this demo filled session we see how we use ksqlDB to gain real-time insights into streaming data. We look at push/pull queries, User Defined Functions, tables and streams.

Set Your SQL Server Data Free with the Use of Kafka

In this talk we look at how we can stream data from SQL Server to the de facto standard for streaming: Apache Kafka.

Understanding Query Cache and Query Plans

Understanding Query Cache and Query Plans