To be fair, there is still TPC, so you can get some idea from that. Given that MS typically does very well on TPC I kinda wonder why they forbid publishing ben

To be fair, there is still TPC, so you can get some idea from that. Given that MS typically does very well on TPC I kinda wonder why they forbid publishing benchmarks. Anecdotally it's very fast as well. Disclosure: I work for a company that uses SQL Server extensively. I quite like it, actually. Easily my favorite Microsoft product and one of my favorite commercial software products in general.