Modernize database version testing matrix (#1657) #1731

Job	Run time
CI-CD / CI (ubuntu-latest, 11, MSSQL-2019-latest, vertx-mssql-client) / Run tests	1m 44s
CI-CD / CI (ubuntu-latest, 25, MSSQL-2019-latest, vertx-mssql-client) / Run tests	1m 50s
CI-CD / CI (ubuntu-latest, 11, MySQL-8.4, vertx-mysql-client) / Run tests	2m 24s
CI-CD / CI (ubuntu-latest, 25, MySQL-8.4, vertx-mysql-client) / Run tests	2m 27s
CI-CD / CI (ubuntu-latest, 11, vertx-sql-client-templates) / Run tests	1m 24s
CI-CD / CI (ubuntu-latest, 11, DB2-12.1, vertx-db2-client) / Run tests	4m 57s
CI-CD / CI (ubuntu-latest, 25, MariaDB-11.8, vertx-mysql-client) / Run tests	2m 20s
CI-CD / CI (ubuntu-latest, 25, MySQL-9.6, vertx-mysql-client) / Run tests	2m 25s
CI-CD / CI (ubuntu-latest, 11, Oracle-23, vertx-oracle-client) / Run tests	2m 4s
CI-CD / CI (ubuntu-latest, 11, PostgreSQL-14, vertx-pg-client) / Run tests	3m 24s
CI-CD / CI (ubuntu-latest, 25, MSSQL-2022-latest, vertx-mssql-client) / Run tests	1m 51s
CI-CD / CI (ubuntu-latest, 25, PostgreSQL-18, vertx-pg-client) / Run tests	3m 33s
CI-CD / CI (ubuntu-latest, 25, PostgreSQL-16, vertx-pg-client) / Run tests	3m 37s
CI-CD / CI (ubuntu-latest, 11, MariaDB-11.8, vertx-mysql-client) / Run tests	1m 55s
CI-CD / CI (ubuntu-latest, 25, Oracle-23, vertx-oracle-client) / Run tests	2m 17s
CI-CD / CI (ubuntu-latest, 25, MSSQL-2025-latest, vertx-mssql-client) / Run tests	3m 42s
CI-CD / CI (ubuntu-latest, 25, PostgreSQL-14, vertx-pg-client) / Run tests	3m 54s
CI-CD / Deploy to OSSRH / Deploy (Oracle) to OSSRH	49s
CI-CD / Deploy to OSSRH / Deploy to OSSRH	2m 7s
	48m 44s

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