Microsoft SQL Server Reviews & Product Details

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Time to Implement

3 months

Return on Investment

18 months

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Abhishek T.

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

4/4/2018

"Better than other RDBMS"

5/5

What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?

Easy to setup and most convenient to use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?

The huge installation file and distributed files. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Tim S.

Owner

Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

2/26/2018

"It works, but bloated"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?

It works with Microsoft suites, but you'll have fun trying to get it to work with Mac. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?

Bloated, limited support. You'll need to keep an eye on updates. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Management Consulting

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

12/7/2017

"SQL server in practice"

4/5

What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?

The consistency of the product is the main aspect that our teams like. They can count on the technology supporting our prior projects, as well as the knowledge transfer for old and new users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?

Product is not moving in new directions. There are a lot of inexpensive options on the market that are incredibly attractive to move towards due to cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Microsoft SQL Server:

make sure you really need the depth provided by this product. The cost is high considering several other options in the market, so make sure you need the full feature set provided with the product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

We use this as our primary data store, both in automated system data as well as in queried data stores in manual reporting. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/14/2018

"Microsoft SQL Server Review"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?

It is highly reliable along with excellent performance, security and scalability. This is one of the best database servers available in the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?

Cost: The Microsoft SQL server can only be afforded by the large business and the small business can’t afford it due to its cost. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

12/13/2017

"Great Enterprise Grade Database System"

5/5

What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?

It is very quick and easy to get up and running. The tools are brilliant, SQL Server Management Studio is a great tool for administering the database, running and analyzing queries etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?

It can be expensive if you use the on-premises version, the cloud version (SQL Azure) is much more reasonably priced. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Microsoft SQL Server:

If you need a stable, secure, industry standard database, with both on-prem and cloud (SQL Azure) versions then SQL Server is a great choice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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

Enables our SaaS solution to store data in a relational manner, with high availability and an easy to setup backup/restore process. It allows us to get on with building our application without worrying too much about the data store. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

avish p.

Implementation Consultant

Oil & Energy

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

1/10/2018

"Easy to use"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?

SQL server is easy to use. columns/tables are easy to find. Copy pasting out of the grid is easy, however, numbers get truncated when pasted into excel. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?

does not have a beautifier option. that would be really helpful when ever i am writing a lengthy code. Also, it would be helpful if the grids are editable like oracle database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/7/2018

"Great tool with awesome capabilities"

4/5

What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?

Great tool with awesome capabilities. I like the interface that is very user friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?

I disnot find anything that is not good about this tool. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Education Management

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

1/4/2018

"We run an Oracle PeopleSoft App on MSQL-server"

4/5

What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?

Our college uses PeopleSoft's Student Administration software and it has an option to run on MSQL rather than Oracle. Since we have more experience with MS products, we use MSQL. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?

Nothing really. MSQL does all that we need it to do, and writing queries are much easier. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Services

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

3/28/2018

"Microsoft SQL"

3.5/5

What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?

Microsoft SQL is easy to use and made the understanding of how the data flows in simple to learn query language. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?

As the complexity increases thus increasing the levels of codes which sometimes one has to iterate over and over. So no predefined structure. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.