Recent SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL, SSMS 22 and Fabric announcements highlight new event streaming and vector search capabilities, plus expanding monitoring and ontology tooling -- with tradeoffs in ...

Data: 100K customers, 10K products, 20 categories, 2M orders, 5M order_items. All deterministic — identical data in both databases. Query: Weekly revenue grouped by category × customer_tier × customer ...