22-25 April 2026

Azure PostgreSQL for the SQL Server DBA

2022

TL; DR

Use your SQL Server skills to learn PostgreSQL

Session Details

PostgreSQL is one of the fastest growing relational databases in the world today. Applications developers are targeting PostgreSQL for their new applications because of its ease of use, powerful query processing engine and its ever-expanding feature set and companies are looking to migrate existing applications to Azure Database for PostgreSQL because of Azure's first-class hosting platform. In this session, we will compare and contrast the similarities and differences between SQL Server and Postgres so that any SQL Server Database Administrator or Developer can leverage their existing skillset to take advantage of Azure's PostgreSQL database offering.

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