At Ignite 2024, Microsoft announced the public preview of the SQL Server(?) database within the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem. This adds another tool to the ever growing toolbox that is Fabric.

As usual, the release demo is based on small datasets and that's not the reality I'm dealing with. Customers have large amounts of data, we as consultants create strange procedures to clean and model the data and in the end the customer expects amazing performance for as little money as possible.

In this session, I'll take you along my tests to load and model the data into a star schema. The session will try and dig as deep as possible into performance, storage and costs of this database. Depending on the development of the Fabric portal, monitoring will be a part of this as well.

In the end you'll have a better understanding of what the Fabric SQL Database has to offer and if it could be a fit for you use case.

Session level is somewhere between 100 and 200.
Demo's might occur, depending on where the portal is in february 2025.