# What To Know About Postgres if You're Coming From SQL Server

DevFeed: [What To Know About Postgres if You're Coming From SQL Server](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/what-to-know-about-postgres-if-you-re-coming-from-sql-server-5852.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://neon.com/blog/what-to-know-about-postgres-if-youre-coming-from-sql-server>)

Author: Brian Holt

Published: 2024-12-10T19:12:31Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Blog -- Neon Docs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/blog-neon-docs.md>)

Topics: [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>)

Tags: [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [microsoft](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/microsoft.md>), [postgres](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgres.md>), [sql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/sql.md>)

## AI overview

A practical comparison for SQL Server developers moving to Postgres, covering SQL dialect differences, identifier quoting, and date functions.

## Source excerpt

1989. The year the Berners-Lee proposed the World Wide Web, The Simpsons first premiered, and Taylor Swift was born. Another worldwide phenom was born that year: Microsoft SQL Server 1.0. We've had 35 years of SQL Server (Microsoft's version), and if you've been invested in the M...