Christian Henrik Reich

SQL Server skills transfer to Microsoft Fabric. In a one-day workshop covering Lakehouses and Warehouses, you’ll dive into engines, query plans, stats, and Delta Lake, and leave confident applying what you already know.

A hands-on workshop for SQL Server practitioners moving into Microsoft Fabric: Lakehouses, Spark, query plans/statistics, and Delta Lake. Different tools, same fundamentals.

Follow an Apache Spark SQL query from optimizer to execution across Spark and Microsoft Fabric. Catalyst, Tungsten, Fabric’s native C++ engine, and the Delta Lake/Parquet storage layers are covered, grounded in Spark source code, with practical tips to optimize for speed and cost.

A practical session on going beyond chatbots: using modern AI architectures and services to turn unstructured data (images, audio, text) into usable insights and integrate it with relational data, with actionable next steps to get started.

This session spotlights Microsoft Fabric Warehouse: a deep dive into the engine, performance, its role in lakehouse solutions, and interoperability with Spark and Lakehouses, helping you apply it effectively in real architectures.