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SQLBits 2026

PostgreSQL For Those Who Know SQL Server

Your chance to get an understanding of PostgreSQL from a SQL Server point of view.

More and more organizations are hosting their data across a broader set of tools. One of the fastest growing data storage tools is PostgreSQL. Many developers and data pros familiar with SQL Server are now being required to add this new tool to their toolset. This session will outline the differences and similarities between PostgreSQL and SQL Server. We'll cover topics like backups, queries, monitoring and query tuning. If you already know SQL Server, the knowledge you'll glean from this session will start you on your journey to also knowing PostgreSQL.

Speaker

Grant Fritchey, SQL Server MVP, works for Redgate Software as a Product Advocate. He is the author of the books SQL Server Execution Plans (Simple-Talk) and SQL Server Query Performance Tuning (Apress).

Grant Fritchey's Sessions

Intelligent Query Processing: From Insight to Impact

dbRosetta, An AI Generated Application and Database

PostgreSQL For Those Who Know SQL Server

Query Performance Enhancements in SQL Server 2025

Learning PostgreSQL as a SQL Server User

Maximize your Productivity: 10 Ways Redgate Makes Database Management Easier

The (Data) Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades

Understanding Extended Events

Managing the Challenge of Monitoring Growing, Multi-platform Database Estates

The New Database Landscape - Revealing Shifts and Charting the Next Horizon

Fundamentals of Git

Efficiency up, failed releases down; compliant production data for your test and dev environments

Automating Database Deployments Using Github Actions

Benefits of Using Version Control In Database Development

SQL Server Query Performance: Common Problems, Possible Solutions

Flyway: An Evolution in Database Deployments

What I’m telling your developers about DevOps

SQL Injection: How it Works, How to Stop It

Yes, You Should Monitor Azure SQL Database

SQL Injection: How it Works, How to Stop It

Learn to Read Execution Plans

Environment Provisioning: The Third Age

DevOps and Data

Exploring Execution Plans

Data protection & privacy in the world of database DevOps

Statistics, Row Counts, Execution Plans, and Query Tuning

Introducing the Query Store

Faster Provisioning with SQL Clone

The Query Store and Query Tuning in SQL Server vNext

Execution Plans: What Can You Do With Them?

Top Tips for Better T-SQL

Automating Your Database Deployments

Getting Started Reading Execution Plans

Monitoring Windows Azure SQL Server VMs and SQL Databases

Query Tuning in the Clouds