Microsoft SQL Server Reviews & Product Details

We have been using SQL Server for different projects since about 2010. Even though we are a small business, we still have a big need for an enterprise level DBMS. We have some business management systems and even our website using SQL Server Standard. I do like that SQL server is very easy to manage and there's a lot of tech information out there to fix any issues that come up. The updates are easy and I don't really have to worry much about reliability or speed because if those issues do come up, I get notified immediately if utilization is higher than it's supposed to be. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cost, I just wish that it was a little bit less expensive, especially when you're using multiple servers with the same product for redundancy only. I do wish that we could run SQL server on Linux but I know this is coming sometime in 2017, so that is good news. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

this is a very powerful product which runs seamlessly to support single and multiple user data access. no hiccups ever with this product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

documentation is lacking in depth. Microsoft seems to believe that other users should describe the product and some of them are inaccurate. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is easy to use and can get installer easily Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cannot rollback incase we accidently used truncate or delete commad Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SQL Server is easy to deploy and support, great performance tuning tools and easy integration. Very good documentation and professional support Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Nothing critical, but still no analogue of Oracle RAC Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

documentation and help available online are extensive Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The high cost of MS SQL can be prohiibative, but licensing is vm friendly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Its ease of use to import and export data in to the database. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The setup time is too long while installing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MS SQL provides my company with very good data collection and reporting. Our business is able to get proper metrics to complete their jobs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes large reports take a lot of time to complete. It could be stressful to the servers if it is not properly configured with resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SQL Server Management Studio is great for storing and managing large, independent and interconnected data sets. Querying, joining, subsetting, and aggregating data can be done with simple commands. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Computationally intensive processes can take a long time relative to distributed systems. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is still very effective in terms of performance and help us run complicated queries with simple syntax Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Too many version upgrades making it difficult to keep track Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cheap, easy, and integrated. It's pretty standard for a lot of applications as well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Having to use a 3rd party admin tool, or the interface itself. Support isn't as good as oracle, but hell of a lot cheaper Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.