22-25 April 2026 
Parsing Billions of Rows: Why, When, How?
Proposed session for SQLBits 2026TL; DR
Not all developers build the same kind of applications. And, indeed, some of us end up working with tens of billions of rows of data that, most of the time, needs to be parsed to fully adhere to our needs.
How best to parse this data? Learn here.
Session Details
Not all applications are the same. Some of us build games, some of us build banking apps, and some of us build web solutions for our university assignments.
Regardless, when our use case involves data, we have to parse it: how best to parse all kinds of data, even involving tens of billions of rows?
Attend this talk and learn how to quickly, easily & without pain parse all kinds of data sets; from hundreds to tens of billions of rows.
Regardless, when our use case involves data, we have to parse it: how best to parse all kinds of data, even involving tens of billions of rows?
Attend this talk and learn how to quickly, easily & without pain parse all kinds of data sets; from hundreds to tens of billions of rows.
3 things you'll get out of this session
Why is parsing important and how best to parse data in my specific scenario?
How to quickly parse tens of billions of rows?
What are the most common mistakes in regards to data parsing?