Microsoft SQL Server Reviews & Product Details

Absolute control of the data, great possibilities of assemblies programming and stored procedures, very safe, control of users and great administrator Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the price per license may be what you least like but at a professional level it has a great quality-price Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ease of use, the ease of maintenance. Automated scheduling for db clean up is great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't like the licensing that comes with it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This has been the standard for our database usage for many years Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Takes years to be fully proficient in this skill set Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. Its capability of manipulating data and power of RDBMS

2. Optimization through Sql server is easy and efficient

3. Tuning operation through it also very good

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1. It take hell lot of memory and storage Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Reporting Services, OLAP, flexibility to allow exchange of data via ODBC. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

install problems. Trying to install with Visual Studio results in issues. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Microsoft SQL is a really good relational database to write relational queries and perform insert, update and delete queries from application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It can be more robust as compared to other relational database and cannot be used for unstructured data Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Name brand, well known company with a history of new ideas Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not overly user friendly... a lot of features but no real focus on any Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The language is exciting to learn and master and you can achieve great results and databases.

SQL server is a very reliable database software and it's uptime is very high. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Some of the best features are not available unless you purchase enterprise edition. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like that it helps me control the permissions granted to any user, also I like that I can query any tables in any DB easily, also I like that I can verify my script before executing it, also that I can shrink the database to save space, also I can generate a script with either the structure or the structure with the data for any table or list of tables and execute it in any other SQL DB, also I like the feature of of exporting tables data from SQL DB to another easily, I like the stored procedures, views, it really saves a lot of efforts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Security should be enhanced please, I don't like its level of security and it sometimes hangs while big queries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The best part about Microsoft's SQL server is simply that when it works, it works flawlessly. Once you have your database design done and everything has been setup, I can't imagine a better program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The not so great parts of SQL server is that it takes some getting used to. Microsoft's SQL dialect is slightly different which makes troubleshooting a bit difficult sometimes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.