From: | Thomas Kellerer <spam_eater(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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To: | pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: Nice Quote from Celko |
Date: | 2012-09-24 15:35:15 |
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Richard Broersma, 24.09.2012 01:09:
> Here is the excerpt that the quote comes from:
>
> "Bottom Line
>
> Porting applications to SQL Server is not the usual direction.
> Developers are more likely to port SQL Server to Postgres because it
> is open source, supports more ANSI features, runs on more platforms,
> uses a different ACID model and has a great optimizer.
>
> If you live in a Microsoft world and need to move Postgres code to
> SQL Server, don’t expect the port to be easy. You might luck up, but
> that’s not the way the smart money bets. The pure SQL part will not
> hard if the original Postgres is clean and simple; you will have to
> write the extra ANSI features with complicated T-SQL. The hard part
> is that Postgres assumes a non-Microsoft environment and a different
> concurrency model."
There are some similar posts out there:
http://facility9.com/2011/12/ten-reasons-postgresql-is-better-than-sql-server/
http://datachomp.com/archives/im-leaving-sql-server-for-postgres/
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