How Compatible Is Babelfish with SQL Server? A Practical T-SQL Test
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Babelfish promises SQL Server compatibility, but compatibility claims are only useful when grounded in tested behaviour. This post documents what actually works and what does not, based on systematic testing against Babelfish 4.8.0 on PostgreSQL 16.11, running as a FoundryDB managed service.
Every result below was verified by running the query and checking the output. Nothing here is speculative.