# Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard on Windows Server 2012 RTM Reviews **Vendor:** Amazon Web Services (AWS) **Category:** [AWS Marketplace Software](https://www.g2.com/categories/aws-marketplace) **Average Rating:** 4.2/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 7 ## About Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard on Windows Server 2012 RTM SQL Server on AWS has lower TCO, higher performance, and the broadest and deepest capabilities. This SQL Server Amazon Machine Images (AMI) is built by Amazon Web Services (AWS) for use on Amazon EC2, the proven, reliable, and secure place for SQL Server. ## Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard on Windows Server 2012 RTM Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users value the **robust data security features** of Microsoft SQL Server 2012, ensuring protection from malfunctions and damages. (1 reviews) - Users find **deployment easy** thanks to seamless integration with ASP.NET and efficient connection to SSMS. (1 reviews) - Users appreciate the **simple interface** of Microsoft SQL Server 2012, which enhances query speed and overall performance. (1 reviews) - Users value the **easy integrations** with ASP.NET, enhancing connectivity and allowing efficient use of Stored procedures. (1 reviews) - Users value the **seamless integration** with ASP.NET, ensuring smooth connections and efficient performance for complex applications. (1 reviews) - Performance (1 reviews) - Reliability (1 reviews) - Solution Integration (1 reviews) - Speed (1 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find the **complex coding** of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard challenging, especially for small applications. (1 reviews) - Users find the product requires **expensive hosting environments** , making it unsuitable for small applications and budgets. (1 reviews) - Users find the cost fair, but face challenges due to **limited availability of extended processing power**. (1 reviews) - Users find the **limited features** of SQL Server 2012 Standard restrictive, especially for small applications and hosting costs. (1 reviews) - Users find the **limited flexibility** of Microsoft SQL Server frustrating due to its restricted processing power options. (1 reviews) ## Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard on Windows Server 2012 RTM Reviews ### 1. One of the Best SQL Servers **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Abhinay A. | Front end, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 24, 2024 **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. **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. **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. ### 2. Well tested SQL Powerhouse **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Financial Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 05, 2025 **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. **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. **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. ### 3. Microsoft' standard SQL Server stellar for its time **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonathan H. | Data Manager, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 17, 2022 **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 **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) **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 ### 4. Distributed Replay Controller is effective to perform replays against target database for SQL Server **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nikitha S. | Cloud Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 04, 2022 **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. **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. **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. ### 5. -makes it easy for administrators -hyper-v solution -storage media -configuration **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dewi S. | DevOps Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 08, 2022 **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. **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) **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. ### 6. Great database environment, though newer options exist now **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** David W. | Head of Engineering - Data and Business Intelligence, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 21, 2021 **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. **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! **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. ### 7. MS SQL 2012 Server Review **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Aditya T. | Cloud Solutions Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 18, 2021 **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 **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 **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard on Windows Server 2012 RTM solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1> Database Management ## Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard on Windows Server 2012 RTM Discussions - [What is Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard on Windows Server 2012 RTM used for?](https://www.g2.com/discussions/what-is-microsoft-sql-server-2012-standard-on-windows-server-2012-rtm-used-for) - [View Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard on Windows Server 2012 RTM pricing details and edition comparison](https://www.g2.com/products/microsoft-sql-server-2012-standard-on-windows-server-2012-rtm/reviews?section=pricing&secure%5Bexpires_at%5D=2026-05-15+20%3A24%3A47+-0500&secure%5Bsession_id%5D=82a8bdb1-f984-4732-9f62-932596ae6fde&secure%5Btoken%5D=70abb648fb75624826acf775776338f5243f93d2c0dd5622ba07d49e1cfa82e1&format=llm_user) ## Microsoft SQL Server 2012 Standard on Windows Server 2012 RTM Features **Agentic AI - AWS Marketplace** - Autonomous Task Execution - Multi-step Planning - Cross-system Integration