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My team is managing around 500 production instances of SQL Server and few times that of non production environments. Various clients various configurations. SQL Server - when configured properly - isn't generally causing any problems. If it is, it's pretty easy to troubleshoot thanks to system views which allow you to see what is happening in sql engine internals with plenty of detail. Try this with Postgres. All our engineers working with both MSSQL and PG/MSSQL praise MSSQL for this visibility into system internals. Reboots? You can work around those. 2 hours for an upgrade? Boy what are you running this MMSQL on? Should take 20 min tops, and with cluster it's zero downtime (well, few seconds maybe). Express is capped at 10GB. Yes. For user databases (a hint). So sure, PG stack may be better for some uses, but MSSQL is simply too good overall to just dismiss it the way you're doing it. Also, did someone mention excellent BI stack which is included in price?