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Fact-Checking Microsoft’s “PostgreSQL to SQL Field Notes: Connections”

October 14, 2026

Microsoft has started a series of blog posts helping Postgres developers who are "upgrading" to Microsoft SQL. (Microsoft's been using that generic "SQL" term to refer to its collection of database products: Azure SQL DB, Hyperscale, Managed Instances, and SQL Server.)

I let the first blog post slide, but the second post explained why Microsoft is so much better than Postgres at handling connections, and it's so egregiously misleading that I'm gonna have to step in.

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Free Webcast: How to Think Like the SQL Server & Postgres Engines

October 13, 2026

You’re a developer or a DBA, and you’re comfortable writing queries to get the data you need. You’re much less comfortable trying to design the right indexes for your database server. In my new totally free How to Think Like the Engines class, you’ll learn how the SQL Server and Postgres database engines look at your indexes and build your query results.

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