22-25 April 2026
SQLBits 2019

Scalable real-time insights with Azure Stream Analytics

Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed serverless offering that enables customers to perform real-time data transforms and hot-path analytics using a simple SQL language. In this session, we will show how to combine SQL reference data to augment data coming from devices and create real-time alerts, leverage partitioning to write data to SQL at high speed, and create real-time dashboards.
Azure Stream Analytics is a fully managed serverless offering that enables customers to perform real-time data transforms and hot-path analytics using a simple SQL language. Recently, Azure Stream Analytics enhanced the integration with Azure SQL Databases and Azure SQL DW, making SQL the ideal database to collect and further process data coming from real-time systems and IoT devices. In this session, we will notably show how to combine SQL reference data to augment data coming from devices and create real-time alerts, leverage partitioning to write data to SQL at high speed, and create real-time dashboards. W

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Microsoft

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