--- title: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard on Windows Server 2012 RTM Reviews meta\_title: 'Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard on Windows Server 2012 RTM Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard on Windows Server 2012 RTM works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.2 review\_count: 7 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-17' parent\_category: name: Marketplace Apps url: https://www.g2.com/categories/marketplace-apps --- # Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard on Windows Server 2012 RTM Reviews & Product Details SQL Server on AWS has lower TCO, higher performance, and the broadest and deepest capabilities. 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[Log in to unlock pricing and user insights](/login) ![Abhinay A.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Abhinay A.") AA Abhinay A. Front end Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 12/24/2024 "One of the Best SQL Servers" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard on Windows Server 2012 RTM? Microsoft SQL server provides a simple to use interface with very good query speed and overall performance. Multiple processes are set in place to protect data in case of any malfunctions or damages to centers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard on Windows Server 2012 RTM? Cost of the Microsoft SQL Server is on par wityh its competetors but unfair cause lack of extended processing power availabiliity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard on Windows Server 2012 RTM solving and how is that benefiting you? We have large scale data and to fetch relevant data and use it in operations Microsoft SQL server helps us as it is in compilance with majority of Query syntaxes and provides options to optimise our codes and reduce cost of our data operations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Verified User in Financial Services](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Financial Services") CF Verified User in Financial Services Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 2/5/2025 "Well tested SQL Powerhouse" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard on Windows Server 2012 RTM? It should be go to database and environment for anyone working on ASP.NET due to seamless integration with the application and ease of connection with SSMS (SQL Server Management Studio). If is perfect for applications that heavily rely on Stored procedures in their applications. In our case particularly, we used Recursive CTEs a lot as we hade complex nested data but never faced any performance issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard on Windows Server 2012 RTM? The product is not ideal for small application due to it requiring expensive hosting environments. It is not available on demand and needs to be up and running 24x7. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard on Windows Server 2012 RTM solving and how is that benefiting you? Our Business Rules engines required databse level business logic execution for ideal performance and we were able to write entire Business engine in SQL Server itself. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite JH Jonathan H. Data Manager Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 6/17/2022 "Microsoft' standard SQL Server stellar for its time" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard on Windows Server 2012 RTM? - uses Microsoft's own Transaction SQL script, giving integrity to data so something can be committed or rolled back. - despite cost, its much cheaper than Oracle - known dependable enterprise grade app Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard on Windows Server 2012 RTM? SQL Server 2012 is end of life soon (2022-07-01) No Drop If Exists (this came in 2016) No support for XML or JSON (this also came later) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard on Windows Server 2012 RTM solving and how is that benefiting you? This is the underlying Database infrastructure on many CRMs such as the very popular Blackbaud Raisers Edge system for non profits. I can query some of the tables in the CRM from this and JOIN with other data I have Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Nikitha S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Nikitha S.") NS Nikitha S. Cloud Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/4/2022 "Distributed Replay Controller is effective to perform replays against target database for SQL Server" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard on Windows Server 2012 RTM? Microsoft SQL Server offers transaction statements that can be grouped together within a stored procedure for convenience. It takes the input parameters & provides accurate output values when calling a method to perform specific operations. Its security features protect the database objects and carry code encapsulation for each line of code to execute our stored procedure in a secured manner. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard on Windows Server 2012 RTM? Since it's deployed through Amazon Machine Image (AMI), we needn't worry about security layer configurations, regulatory updates and version control management as AWS takes care of the underlying infrastructure. Since its Cloud-based EC2 instance, auto scalability can be provisioned based on our network traffic between our client and server. It is supported on multiple platforms and we don't have to install licenses as it comes along with EC2 for a nominal cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard on Windows Server 2012 RTM solving and how is that benefiting you? It effectively captures all our production workload and can replay it against any target database according to our customer specifications. It requires installation of both Distributed Replay Controller & Replay client for capturing all events & effectively loading them into our DBA utilities. In case we set up Distributed Replay Controller and Distributed Replay client on two separate EC2 machines, we need to configure its firewall carefully so that it can easily communicate between the services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Dewi S.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Dewi S.") DS Dewi S. DevOps Engineer Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) 3/8/2022 "-makes it easy for administrators -hyper-v solution -storage media -configuration" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard on Windows Server 2012 RTM? -storage media -configuration Windows server 2012 has a sharing and storage management snap-in feature that provides server role files to make and manage volume and sharing easier. Here there are two facilities, namely the provision storage wizard which is an integrated storage provisioning to perform tasks such as creating a new LUN, specifying LUN type, unmasking LUN, and creating volume formating. Wizard also supports a wide range of protocols such as Fibre Channel, iSCSI and SAS. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard on Windows Server 2012 RTM? Operating costs are quite high If the server is in trouble, the entire network will experience interference. Its security level is still low, although it is already better than its predecessor. There are quite a lot of unnecessary (useless) services. Difficult to implement Active Directory (AD) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard on Windows Server 2012 RTM solving and how is that benefiting you? Installing and optimizing windows server 2003 is much easier than windows NT. It looks more attractive than previous versions of Windows (similar to Windows XP). The rebooting process is very fast (see also: virtual memory function). Designed for the daily needs of large-scale companies Using DHCP that facilitates large-scale networking organizations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![David W.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "David W.") DW David W. Head of Engineering - Data and Business Intelligence Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/21/2021 "Great database environment, though newer options exist now" 4/5 What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard on Windows Server 2012 RTM? I've been a SQL Server fan since I began using it with version 6.5 in the mid 1990's. SQL Server 2012 was a solid, stable, and easily implemented version of SQL Server with all the tools - SSRM, SSIS, etc. It ran effortlessly on Windows Server 2012 also. There was a lightweight Web edition too with reduced licensing cost and complexity. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard on Windows Server 2012 RTM? One thing about SQL Server 2012 which, thankfully, Microsoft resolved in later versions was when you exported query results in SSMS to CSV or tab-delimited format it never included the column headings! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard on Windows Server 2012 RTM solving and how is that benefiting you? We used SQL Server 2012 on Windows Server 2012 for our web site hosting on a virtual private server from an external hosting partner. This allowed us to deploy sophisticated data-driven applications in a safe and secure way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ![Aditya T.](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Aditya T.") AT Aditya T. Cloud Solutions Engineer Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/18/2021 "MS SQL 2012 Server Review" 4/5 What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard on Windows Server 2012 RTM? 1\> User friendly 2\>UI is very good 3\> Performance is Nice Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard on Windows Server 2012 RTM? 1\>As of now I don't have cons for MS SQL 2012 server Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard on Windows Server 2012 RTM solving and how is that benefiting you? 1\> Database Management Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite ## Questions about Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard on Windows Server 2012 RTM? Ask real users or explore answers from the community Get practical answers, real workflows, and honest pros and cons from the G2 community or share your insights. 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