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3 meses

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18 meses

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Verified User in Medical Practice

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/11/2018

"Industry Standard Continues to Raise the Bar"

5/5

What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?

Since the beginning of my career, I have always have the pleasure of using SSMS as my RDBMS. While being in the industry for many years, SQL continues to impress me with there modifications and updates (eg integrating R code into SQL). I’m excited to see what they will continue to add. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?

Honestly, I have no complaints on this product. It does everything I need it to do. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?

I work as a healthcare analyst and I use SQL to retrieve data from our EHRS to help my company my better business as well as to improve our patients’ experience and safety. As healthcare becomes more numbers driven, the ability to pull data and dig into that information is imperative. SQL makes it much easier to do that. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Consumer Goods

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/16/2018

"Stable database to use"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?

I’ve used many different databases in the past, including MySQL, and SQL server is the most stable, in my opinion. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?

Really cost would be the only thing I dislike about SQL server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Denis V.

MS SQL Server DBA

Information Technology and Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

2/6/2018

"SQL Server RDBMS"

4/5

What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?

Works on cloud and on-premises servers.

Deep integration with another Microsoft and not only products.

It is cross platform RDBMS can be run as on Windows and on Linux.

It is very fast and stable.

It got good security with data encryption and another options.

It provides multiple high availability solutions to choose from. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?

Not very easy to conduct performance tuning, need to use multiple tools, there is no any native good graphical tool from the box.

Not very easy and fast to perform migration from instance to instance.

Not cheap solution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jaya Krishna T.

Sr. Database Engineer

Internet

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

11/13/2017

"Sr. SQL Database Engineer"

5/5

What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?

Managing database using SQL Server Management studio provides very good flexibility Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?

There isn't as much that I dislike with SQL Server. It will be good to have features where we have fine grain control over internal things. For example, it would have been a good feature to have historical tracking of the metrics as opposed to we setting up custom metrics. Overall SQL Server made my life easy to manage lot of databases and ease of use while migration projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Microsoft SQL Server:

Microsoft SQL Server is a great product. Ease of use of this product is unprecedented and comfortable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?

We are using SQL Server right now to support the Lynda.com OLTP OLAP And reporting databases.

we are solving the reporting problems and data warehouse issues. We are also finding it easy to solve the Audit and SOX Controls using SQL Server.

Auditing and Encryption are two areas we are exploring right now to add more value to the usage of the product.

It is also easy to setup database refresh across all the non-production databases using the SQL Server Agent to setup automatic jobs to run on a schedule without manual intervention. Using this we are able to save lot of time in setting this up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

7/12/2018

"Microsoft sql-recommend "

4.5/5

What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?

Support is a major factor. Day-to-day functionality is reliable, but for those times when there are issues support is available.

It's fairly quick to manipulate large sets of data.Quick and easy to learn.Cost efficient.Great customer support and online resources available Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?

Add more built-in functions.Having the ability to work with unstructured data would be useful.Having an in build data visualization would also be very helpful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Microsoft SQL Server:

Very likely recommend Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?

SQL server is the only data management tool we have. Its used all the way from Data preparation, transformation, and data aggregation. Its used across all the teams. Its used to analyze credit card transaction level data as well as customer demographic data to help inform product, pricing, and marketing strategies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Banking

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/30/2018

"MS SQL"

5/5

What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?

It’s extremely easy to use. And it’s very easy to navigate, and I like that on the off chance I’m stuck and can’t figure out something MS offers a lot of outside tools to aid in using the application. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?

Only thing I dislike is the vagueness of the errors that show up sometimes or that it doesn’t offer solutions to fix said error. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Microsoft SQL Server:

That people should be proficient in SQL but they don’t have to be super expert since MS makes the application easy to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?

Main data warehouse and as a comparison tool to make sure online data reports aren’t parallel to data in datbases in MS SQL Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Joshua R.

Technical Marketing Specialist

Printing

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/18/2018

"SQL Database Management Made Simple"

5/5

What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?

I love how when writing queries, the code editor will color code your terms based on how they fit into the query. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?

I dislike almost nothing about this product. I have never ran into any crashes, errors, misinformation or corrupted data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Microsoft SQL Server:

If you manage multiple databases this software neatly organizes your information so you spend minimal time looking for what you need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?

Im utilizing this product to pulls stats from our database and generate accurate sales reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Banking

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

7/31/2018

"Business Intelligence (BI) Reports, EDW and ETL testing"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?

MS SQL is a very good tool to be used when testing large tables, views etc. that allows to fetch only the applicable data from the database. Hence, it is a big aid in testing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?

It takes some time to get familiar with the work bench and the tables, but once we get familiar testing can be done really quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Microsoft SQL Server:

It is very useful for testing EDW reports and ETL testing once you are aware of all the queries that imply to this tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have achieved efficiency while testing the ETL (Extract, Transport and load) logic for a big database of arrays used in our bank. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Government Administration

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

11/7/2018

"MS SQL Is My go to SQL database"

5/5

What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?

MS SQL is easy to use, just seems to work, and the built in tools for adding on scripts is easy. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?

Expensive and takes a while to install. Aside from that, it's pretty good. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sarah G.

IT Specialist

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

7/2/2018

"Solid performance, but somewhat overwhelming"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?

It's great database software, very customizable, lots of features, intergrates well with other software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?

For a new user, it can be rather confusing. The first time I built a DB, I made all the tables, but couldn't get the relational joins to work. Requires some serious training and I already had MTA: Database Fundamentals certification. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.