[diek]

Admittedly I used SQL Server pretty heavily in the mid-to-late-2000s but haven't kept up with it in recent years so my dig may have been a little unfair.

Agree on READPAST being similar to SKIP_LOCKED, and filtered indexes are equivalent to partial indexes (I remember filtered indexes being in SQL Server 2008 when I used it).

Reading through the docs on Event Notifications they seem to be a little heavier and have different deliver semantics. Correct me if I'm wrong, but Event Notifications seem to be more similar to a consumable queue (where a consumer calling RECEIVE removes events in the queue), whereas LISTEN/NOTIFY is more pubsub, where every client LISTENing to a channel gets every NOTIFY message.