Microsoft SQL Server Reviews & Product Details

What I like best about Microsoft SQL Server is its robust performance, scalability, and advanced security features. The platform offers excellent tools for data management, backup, and recovery, along with seamless integration with other Microsoft products. Its intuitive interface and strong support for complex queries make it ideal for large enterprises managing high volumes of data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I dislike about Microsoft SQL Server is its high licensing costs, which can be a barrier for smaller businesses or startups. Additionally, it can be resource-intensive, requiring significant hardware and infrastructure for optimal performance, especially in large-scale environments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Everything. It is the easiest to use, the most powerfull in the market, it allow you manage the database, the users, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the worst thing about Microsoft SQL Server is that you need to pay to use it in all of their functions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It’s an all‑in‑one data platform. Performance tuning is powerful and surprisingly friendly.High availability options are mature.It plays nicely with the Microsoft ecosystem Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Licensing costs can be steep.Windows‑centric roots still show. High availability can be complex. Scaling out is harder than scaling up Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's a powerful Relational database engine, which improves every time with new useful features Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SQL Server is expensive, especially the Enterprise edition, Linux versions exist now but aren’t as optimized Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Manage database, advantage of centralizing all the DBs of our systems Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I haven't found anything not useful, I take advantage of the tool to the fullest known. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Express version is flexible enought to attend a number of small companies, and can be use as BI tool storage for this companies also. The easy way to connect the database to another tool, like Excel, PowerBI or any kind of BI tool like Qlik View, Tableau etc. The version of Microsoft SQL Express is very complete and attend many sizes of business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The database is target of many attacks from it's SA account, this must came disabled by default and just after the instalation, some of 30 seconds, the attacks starts, with many requests per second, need to improve the firewall to prevent these attacks, or put the SQL Server inside of a VPN and local network to avoid these attacks. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It is very useful for solving queries and is easy to use when working with queries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Occasionally, I encounter some errors, but it's not clear to me what causes them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MS SQL Server has been extremely reliable. The syntax ports well with other query based languages and I find myself using this framework for most or all my projects because of how much documentation and support there is online and how easy it is to integrate and implement solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Certain advanced features can be complicated. However there is a lot of support and resources available. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I like features of MS SQL Server as relational db system. We have build whole system on it.

I would like to recommend option for exporting e-r diagram from tables. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Licensing costs could be hight in case you have huge resource consumption. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Easy to administrate

- Compatible with Microsoft tools

- Free and Paid versions

- Multiple Engine versions

- Very Powerful Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Sometimes as Windows dependent, you have to restart the service or reboot the OS where it is running Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.