22-25 April 2026 
Reitse Eskens
Reitse began his computer days with GW Basic and quickly followed with Windows 3.11. After that, many computers followed, and, interrupted by human resource and psychology studies, he got into the IT work field around 2007. There, he encountered Oracle 9, which had a command line from 1980. At his current job, he met SQL Server. And loved it. Now he’s working with SQL 2008 to SQL 2019 on-premises and several Azure SQL Databases, supporting customers and tuning databases. New projects focus more on the Azure data platform as an architect, security advisor and data engineer. They include Fabric (Lakehouse and Realtime solutions), Data Factory and Synapse Analytics.
Reitse Eskens's Sessions
Data Literacy: Navigating Your Way to Data-Driven Success!SQLBits 2025
Data literacy is essential for everyone, from enthusiasts to business leaders, ensuring they understand and can use data effectively. This leads to better decisions and diverse insights within a company.
Join us to explore the importance of data literacy, how to implement it, and engage all skill levels. This interactive session includes Mentimeter polls and Q&A. Whether you're a data enthusiast or a business leader, you’re in our target audience. And yes, there will be stroopwafels!
Infra as code, control it from the tower.SQLBits 2024
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.
Ask the Expert - Group A (Fri, 13:40 to 14:30)SQLBits 2024
Come and see to some of our amazing speakers on one of these topics:
1. SQL and Databases:
2. Microsoft Fabric and Related Technologies:
3. Power BI and Data Visualization:
4. Azure and Cloud Technologies:
Load Testing Fabric - What is our hold capacity? SQLBits 2024
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.
What they should have told me about being a DBASQLBits 2022
A short introduction of the cool tools you need as a DBA today.
Loadtesting Fabric II, the sequelSQLBits 2026
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.
SQL 2025, SSMS 22 and Fabric. And they mirrored happily ever after?SQLBits 2026
SQL Server 2025 and Fabric offer the option to directly mirror your data from the database into Microsoft Fabric. This offloads the analytics from your on-premises environment to the cloud.
Let me show you how this works, what caveats there are and how to setup security.
Data Literacy: Navigating Your Way to Data-Driven Success!SQLBits 2025
Data literacy is essential for everyone, from enthusiasts to business leaders, ensuring they understand and can use data effectively. This leads to better decisions and diverse insights within a company.
Join us to explore the importance of data literacy, how to implement it, and engage all skill levels. This interactive session includes Mentimeter polls and Q&A. Whether you're a data enthusiast or a business leader, you’re in our target audience. And yes, there will be stroopwafels!
Infra as code, control it from the tower.SQLBits 2024
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.
Ask the Expert - Group A (Fri, 13:40 to 14:30)SQLBits 2024
Come and see to some of our amazing speakers on one of these topics:
1. SQL and Databases:
2. Microsoft Fabric and Related Technologies:
3. Power BI and Data Visualization:
4. Azure and Cloud Technologies:
Load Testing Fabric - What is our hold capacity? SQLBits 2024
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.
To Hyperscale or not to Hyperscale, that's the questionSQLBits 2022
Hyperscale, some good and bad things to take into account
What they should have told me about being a DBASQLBits 2022
A short introduction of the cool tools you need as a DBA today.