diff --git a/benchmark/relational/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/microbenchmark/r2dbc/R2dbcFixture.java b/benchmark/relational/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/microbenchmark/r2dbc/R2dbcFixture.java
index 40eecc2..0dc015b 100644
--- a/benchmark/relational/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/microbenchmark/r2dbc/R2dbcFixture.java
+++ b/benchmark/relational/src/main/java/org/springframework/data/microbenchmark/r2dbc/R2dbcFixture.java
@@ -15,21 +15,15 @@
  */
 package org.springframework.data.microbenchmark.r2dbc;
 
-import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
-import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.jdbc.DataSourceAutoConfiguration;
-import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.r2dbc.R2dbcProperties;
-import org.springframework.context.ConfigurableApplicationContext;
-import org.springframework.core.io.ClassPathResource;
-import org.springframework.core.io.Resource;
-import org.springframework.data.microbenchmark.FixtureUtils;
-import org.springframework.data.r2dbc.connectionfactory.init.ResourceDatabasePopulator;
-
-import io.r2dbc.spi.ConnectionFactory;
 import lombok.Getter;
 
+import org.springframework.boot.autoconfigure.SpringBootApplication;
+import org.springframework.context.ConfigurableApplicationContext;
+import org.springframework.data.microbenchmark.FixtureUtils;
+
 /**
  * Test fixture for JDBC and Spring Data JDBC benchmarks.
- * 
+ *
  * @author Oliver Drotbohm
  */
 public class R2dbcFixture {
@@ -37,22 +31,9 @@ public class R2dbcFixture {
 	private final @Getter ConfigurableApplicationContext context;
 
 	public R2dbcFixture(String database) {
-		
 		this.context = FixtureUtils.createContext(R2dbcApplication.class, "r2dbc", database);
-		
-		R2dbcProperties properties = context.getBean(R2dbcProperties.class);
-		String platform = properties.getPlatform();
-				
-		Resource schema = new ClassPathResource(String.format("schema-%s.sql", platform));
-		Resource data = new ClassPathResource(String.format("data-%s.sql", platform));
-		
-		ResourceDatabasePopulator populator = new ResourceDatabasePopulator(schema, data);
-		populator.execute(context.getBean(ConnectionFactory.class)).block();
 	}
-	
 
-	@SpringBootApplication (exclude = {
-			DataSourceAutoConfiguration.class
-	})
+	@SpringBootApplication
 	static class R2dbcApplication {}
 }
diff --git a/benchmark/relational/src/main/resources/application-postgres.properties b/benchmark/relational/src/main/resources/application-postgres.properties
index db931a0..59a7924 100644
--- a/benchmark/relational/src/main/resources/application-postgres.properties
+++ b/benchmark/relational/src/main/resources/application-postgres.properties
@@ -4,4 +4,6 @@ spring.datasource.initialization-mode=always
 
 spring.r2dbc.url=r2dbc:postgresql://localhost:5432/benchmark
 spring.r2dbc.platform=postgres
-spring.r2dbc.initialization-mode=always
\ No newline at end of file
+spring.r2dbc.username=postgres
+spring.r2dbc.password=
+spring.r2dbc.initialization-mode=always