Re: PostgreSQL vs. Microsoft SQL server

Thomas Løcke wrote:
> Anybody know of any recent comparisons made between the two?
>

for purely SQL, I prefer Postgres by a wide margin. But, MS SQL
Server comes with a whole infrastructure that includes a lot of powerful
tools, like replication, data extraction and translation, active
directory integrated single sign-on, and so forth. If you're working
in a pure MS world, with .NOT -er- .NET, etc etc, its pretty hard to
get away from MS SQL as there are so many tools

the bottom line tends to be driven by whatever the applications
support. I have one MS SQL database in my lab hosting a program which
only supports MS SQL. Luckily, the demands on this database are low
enough that i can use the free SQL Express.