Anna Hoffman writes up the year in SQL:
For the FIFTH(!!) year in a row (my heart is warm with the number, I love SQL and #SQLfamily, and time is flying), I am sharing my annual Year in Review blog with all the SQL Server, Azure SQL and SQL database in Fabric news this year. Of course, you can catch weekly episodes related to what’s new and diving deeper on the Azure SQL YouTube channel (this blog post was livestreamed there too). This year, in addition to Data Exposed (52 new episodes and over 70K views!), we saw many new series related to areas like GitHub Copilot, SSMS, VS Code, and Azure SQL Managed Instance land in the channel, in addition to Data Exposed.
Click through for plenty of links around SQL Server 2025, Azure SQL, and Fabric SQL Database.