22-25 April 2026 
Loadtesting Fabric II, the sequel
Proposed session for SQLBits 2026TL; DR
In this session, I'll help you learn the differences between Lakehouse, SQLDB, and Warehouse performance, processing speed and cost. I'll also demonstrate how the Realtime stack can serve as a viable alternative for ingestion and processing flat files in terms of speed, scalability and ease of use.
After this session, you'll walk away with real-life insights from Fabric and knowledge of which buttons not to press.
Session Details
Have you tried to find the most effective way to ingest and process your data?
Were you just as confused as I was after reading all the marketing materials?
Would you like to gain more insight into maximising your capacity?
These are questions I've had. And ones I regularly try to help customers with.
In this session, I'll help you learn the differences between Lakehouse, SQLDB, and Warehouse performance, processing speed and cost. I'll also demonstrate how the Realtime stack can serve as a viable alternative for ingestion and processing flat files in terms of speed, scalability and ease of use.
After this session, you'll walk away with real-life insights from Fabric and knowledge of which buttons not to press.
If you've attended the previous instalment of this session, you'll know I won't do my testing with AdventureWorks. It will be a lot of (messy) data to give Fabric a run for its capacity units!
Were you just as confused as I was after reading all the marketing materials?
Would you like to gain more insight into maximising your capacity?
These are questions I've had. And ones I regularly try to help customers with.
In this session, I'll help you learn the differences between Lakehouse, SQLDB, and Warehouse performance, processing speed and cost. I'll also demonstrate how the Realtime stack can serve as a viable alternative for ingestion and processing flat files in terms of speed, scalability and ease of use.
After this session, you'll walk away with real-life insights from Fabric and knowledge of which buttons not to press.
If you've attended the previous instalment of this session, you'll know I won't do my testing with AdventureWorks. It will be a lot of (messy) data to give Fabric a run for its capacity units!
3 things you'll get out of this session
- insights into Fabric Performance
- Tools to do performance testing
- Differences in cost and performance between items
Speakers
Reitse Eskens's other proposed sessions for 2026
SQL 2025, SSMS 22 and Fabric. And they mirrored happily ever after? - 2026
Data Literacy: Navigating Your Way to Data-Driven Success! - 2026
SQL Copilot, what the query is this!? - 2026
Reitse Eskens's previous sessions
Infra as code, control it from the tower.
This session covers deploying an Azure data solution with Infrastructure as Code with emphasis on security but also ease of maintenance.
Besides slides it also offers a demo and the code is on offer for download to give you, the delegate, a head start.
Load Testing Fabric - What is our hold capacity?
This session covers how to test Fabric for larger workloads. The default demo data is usually relatively small whereas a lot of companies process a lot more. This session aims at those use cases where a large dataset needs to be processed. The session goes from data ingestion to data presentation with PowerBI.