[JohnBooty]

This article is a fantastic tour of some of Postgres' programmer-friendly features.

If you're interested in databases but aren't familiar with Postgres, it's a good read if you skip the criticisms of MSSQL. Some of those criticisms are spot-on, some are iffy, and some are rah-rah-yay-yay-open-source exhortations that seem to be lifted from Slashdot threads fifteen years ago.

(For whatever it's worth, I love MSSQL. Been using it for well over a decade. That said, I certainly don't mind reading criticisms of it.)

[socceroos]

This is exactly the feeling I got from the article. While the author did state that he wasn't as familiar with MSSQL as with PostgreSQL, he didn't do very well in enumerating on the facts surrounding his criticisms of MSSQL. I think this greatly hurt his good points.

But yeah, an awesome resource for people dipping their toes in the Postgres pool.