22-25 April 2026

Set Your SQL Server Data Free with the Use of Kafka

2021

TL; DR

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

Session Details

In today's world it is not enough to be able to query data at rest. No, to be competitive we need to handle the data in real-time and treat the data as events!

In this session we look at how we can stream data from SQL Server to the de facto standard for streaming: Apache Kafka. We look at tools like Kafka Connect, and external languages, and after the session we should have a good understanding in various ways we can "set the data free".

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