Re: (MSSQL) Is Too Damn Expensive!
He wants to show off his anti Microsoft credentials and do some virtue signalling, and this is all he has to offer since he doesn't use VS(C) and so can't legitimately criticize it without risk of saying something silly. Either that or he does use VS(C) but wants to keep it secret from all his cool kid FOSS friends and would rather stay away from the subject of Microsoft IDE's in case he gives himself away.
I can say this for MSSQL, it isn't as expensive as Oracles offerings (last I looked which was quite a while ago).