--- title: Microsoft SQL Server Reviews meta_title: 'Microsoft SQL Server Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta_description: Filter 2283 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Microsoft SQL Server works for a business like yours. aggregate_rating: rating_value: 4.4 review_count: 2283 scale: '5' date_modified: '2026-07-22' parent_category: name: Database Software url: https://www.g2.com/categories/database-software --- # Microsoft SQL Server Reviews **Vendor:** Microsoft **Category:** [Relational Databases](https://www.g2.com/categories/relational-databases) **Average Rating:** 4.4/5.0 **Total Reviews:** 2,283 ## About Microsoft SQL Server SQL Server 2017 brings the power of SQL Server to Windows, Linux and Docker containers for the first time ever, enabling developers to build intelligent applications using their preferred language and environment. Experience industry-leading performance, rest assured with innovative security features, transform your business with AI built-in, and deliver insights wherever your users are with mobile BI. ## Microsoft SQL Server Pros & Cons **What users like:** - Users appreciate the **ease of use** of Microsoft SQL Server, enjoying its intuitive GUI and powerful capabilities. (32 reviews) - Users appreciate the **robust database management** of Microsoft SQL Server, enabling effective data handling and user administration. (29 reviews) - Users value the **exceptional performance** of Microsoft SQL Server, noting its powerful capabilities and ease of use. (25 reviews) - Users appreciate the **enterprise-grade security and powerful features** of Microsoft SQL Server, enhancing peace of mind and usability. (23 reviews) - Users appreciate the **easy integrations** of Microsoft SQL Server, enhancing their data management and analytics workflows seamlessly. (22 reviews) - Users love the **seamless integration** of Microsoft SQL Server with other Microsoft products, enhancing productivity significantly. (21 reviews) - Reliability (18 reviews) - Users appreciate the **ease of data management** with Microsoft SQL Server, enjoying its simplicity and flexibility for various applications. (16 reviews) - Setup Ease (13 reviews) - Users appreciate the **incredible efficiency** of Microsoft SQL Server, making it the go-to standard for database management. (12 reviews) **What users dislike:** - Users find Microsoft SQL Server's **high licensing costs** prohibitive, particularly affecting smaller businesses and startups. (21 reviews) - Users struggle with the **high licensing costs** of Microsoft SQL Server, making it challenging for smaller businesses. (12 reviews) - Users note that the **high licensing costs** of Microsoft SQL Server can be challenging for smaller businesses and projects. (12 reviews) - Users find the **licensing costs to be prohibitively high** , especially for small businesses and projects. (11 reviews) - Users find **performance issues** with SQL Server, particularly regarding tuning, scaling, and resource consumption on older systems. (11 reviews) - Users experience **slow performance** with SQL Server, especially when running alongside other software and during data searches. (11 reviews) - Users find the **user interface complex** and not intuitive, leading to a steeper learning curve for newcomers. (8 reviews) - Difficult Learning (7 reviews) - High Hardware Requirements (7 reviews) - Technical Difficulties (7 reviews) ## Microsoft SQL Server Reviews ### 1. best Db software for .net applications **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** L V P. | Head of IT, Financial Services, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** I enjoy using the MS SQL backup and replication options. I've used log shipping for a few years, and it can be a real life saver at times. The best feature we can get from a DB software like this is concurrent replication. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** When the DB log file reaches a certain size, it becomes a serious problem for the DB's ability to run queries quickly. and the entire DB performance will be slow. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** as i told log shipping use to save lot of money to us since it works as mirror system min 5min back in time. so this use to be a good feature it has. ### 2. Great experience with Microsoft SQL Server **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Singh M B. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** the best about microsoft sql server is that it is Relational DBMS and store data in form of relation or table. it reterives million of data in one go as the variety of transaction processing it do also it support all languages like DDL, DML, TCL, DCL. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** The interface of Microsoft SQL Server is complex , it make difficult to deal with databases and its tables. Also it does not grant full control of databases to user, **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** It solved our RDBMS data storage problem which was sensitive and we need secure database for our internal apps so Microsoft given that environment to us. ### 3. Solid Database management system **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** Good product for managing your database and great product for data integration. Microsoft SQL server is pretty stable and able to handle large amount of data requests. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** We use Microsoft SQL server for a number of applications. Frequently we are running into storage issues. This could be everytime workaround by shrinking, clearing logs, reseting. So technically there is enough space, but how it is being handled does not seem efficient. There should smarter solutions to keep data usage low. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Microsoft SQL server is used for many purposes in our organisation. Many applications have a SQL db in the back end hosted on the Microsoft SQL server. MS SQL server is also used for our datawarehouse, integrating data from many applications. ### 4. Mssql_review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Avinash K. | Data Scientist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2023 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** It is user friendly and faster then others **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** I didn't come across anything which leads to dislike mssql **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is used to store data to various Databases and gets the slice of data when needed ### 5. SQL server review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sunny K. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 14, 2023 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** Simplicity with large no of integration with other technologies **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** Regular hanging of system showing visual studio is busy **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** East to use and quick to learn. Ssms makes it looks easy ### 6. Using SQL server with Teamcenter for PLM operations **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Carlos Augusto S. | support engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 20, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** Ms. SQL server easily manages an organization's data and rarely malfunctions, if at all. Once set up, it requires very little maintenance. Compared to Oracle, the integration with Teamcenter is seamless. When we have to clone a production environment, the SQL server management studio app facilitates the process with a few clicks. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** Ms SQL is not for novices using relational databases. Programming skills are needed to resolve initial setup errors, create users, set up authorizations, etc. Understanding individual errors can be challenging. Although there is plenty of help online, finding the right solution may be on a case basis. With experience, a user can avoid them; however, someone new may have a hard time resolving database issues. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Ms SQL manages Teamcenter database. We use Teamcenter for our PLM operations, so Ms SQL is a fundamental part of our organization as it manages all the PLM data. We are uncertain of SQL inner workings, but we have to come to trust it once it is integrated with Teamcenter. ### 7. Best Database management tool **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 24, 2023 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** Ease of use and easily integrates with other Microsoft tools. Also has a great customer support with continous feature updates. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** I cannot think of anything i dislike about Microsoft SQL Server. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use SQL Server mostly to help manage On-Premises databases with ease. ### 8. Best tool for data management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shwetha C. | Member of Technical Staff, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 16, 2023 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** Microsoft sql server is best tool to use, high security, easy storage management and best data recovery support and data replications is easy, user friendly tool. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** Cost is high and restrictions on compatibility, some hardware compatibility issues. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Is easy to maintain large set of data in Microsoft sql server and we can maintain quality data and create a lot of business insights, we can also generate a reports to business based on the data we are storing in DB. ### 9. Database with best features **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 29, 2023 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** This is my favorite database with top notch and easily accessible features like debugging, profiling, auto complete etc. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** From a structured database standpoint, there is nothing to dislike **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Application development and reviews ### 10. My go to relational database **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nishant B. | Data Scientist-I, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 19, 2023 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** Easy to deploy, secure, scale, and manage using Microsoft Azure Cloud services. Connectivity and integration with other Azure and non-Azure services are also wonderful. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** Backup-restore is still an area where it can be improved. Automated deployment of the production tables still needs to be done with manual scripts, it would be awesome, if there is an automated way to do it. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** I use MSSQL for my tableau backend tables. My go-to analytical tool is Databricks and my automated pipelines refresh MSSQL tables which gives business more agile way to strategize. ### 11. Microsoft SQL Server **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Ana Liza B. | Senior Software Developer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 21, 2023 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** It has desktop app where I can easily create queries. It is also very easy to create views and stored procedures. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** Maybe the restoration of bak files, sometimes when the version is not the same, I'm getting issues. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** It is fast unlike using phpmyadmin for mysql. It has desktop or studio management app. It is very easy to create views and stored procedures. ### 12. Best Relational Database Management System **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** vijay b. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** Microsoft SQL Server is the best Relational Database Management System. Writing SQL queries is too Much easy and the interface is great compared to other Databases. Indexing and Sorting of data using queries it's too easy and MS SQL Server. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** The License of the Microsoft SQL server is too expensive for the client and for that we switch MS SQL to Postgres SQL and MongoDB. And one more thing is that the backup made of a newer version of ms SQL is not compatible with the older version. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** The facility to work with a large amount of data is too easy and fast. and using Microsoft SQL the development and productivity increase. But We are a product-based company every client has its personal database. So the cost of MS SQL is too expensive for our clients so recently we switched to PostgreSQL and MongoDB. ### 13. Simple to query and get the information faster **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Selvakumar M. | Senior Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 02, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** SQL server is giving benefits like accessing,manipulation and query with the database to retrieve data from it and it is giving all the basic keywords as a highlighted which gives us a proper coding way. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** Initial load is very slow and the cost is high for some versions.some rules are hidden and complete control is not given to the database. It has complex interface that makes few users uncomfortable. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** The data and database tables can be modified easily through a simple query. we can analyze the data and get instincts from it. Retrieving information is very easy and faster ### 14. Microsoft SQL server Review **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Gayathri M. | Executive, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 27, 2023 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** It is highly scalable and handle large amount of data and users. And also perform number of transaction and requests. It is data encryption, role based access control and auditing to help protect sensitive data **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** SQL server can be expensive to license especially for larger organization with many users. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** In automation process, instead of using User interface performance, we can use database by using the SQL server. We are storing large amount of data in the database for transaction. ### 15. Powerful Data management Platform **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** suresh p. | Rating Analyst, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 24, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** Simply and easy-to-operate query response tool to seamlessly connect applications. Integration with SDK such as Eclipse and Visual Studio is very easy. it helps to maintain relational database management with a SQL server in a robust and flexible way. Connectivity with SSIS packages and monitoring them is very easy. Microsoft SQL Server's unique views and stored procedures is super helpful to automate management tracking and improve customer interaction. Overall a powerful and easy to deploy software. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** It is quite high on the cost front and takes a little extra effort to do bug tracking. The customizations and Interface could have been simplified so that training new users becomes easy. Import export procedures are bit tricky with new emerging technologies coming up every day. It's incompatible with Apple devices since some users have a mac OS but not windows/linux. Troubleshooting is a challenging task due to individual error handling. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Unique views and stored server procedures help in automated tracking. 2. Through preset conditions, it ensures data consistency and redundancy based on the preset primary key. 3. Very convenient for cloud deployment applications and for CRUD operations 4. Strong RDBMS to pull data from multiple sources and collate it together 5. Data restore and recovery mechanism and data quality check from other sources (Adobe campaign) by pulling in data ### 16. Great experience of MS SQL server in RPA automation. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** chirag S. | Senior Consultant, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 06, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** Storing of Data, using a conditional statement such as addition, filtration, deletion of data and managing of the client was has been quite helpful while using Microsoft sql server. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** Not really ever felt like not using Microsoft sql server in RPA automation but i think my dislikes could be of managing massive data at times or also maintenance of big databases could lead to certain problems. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** I could add all the data received from the client to the SQL server and perform specific data validations before using that data in the downstream process. I can access client data for auditing purposes in case of any issue analysis OR RCA. Managing of huge data is easy before implementing into the downstream processes. ### 17. Poor for large scale operation **Rating:** 2.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Elf C. | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** March 09, 2023 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** Easily integrate with SSMS SSIS SSRS. Fast in small trastional operation. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** Poor performance in general setup, high performance requires lot of memory to store in-memory tables **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to setup as an application server require less maintenance if just use for limited application usuage. ### 18. Simple SQL **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** LANKE P. | Senior Data Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** Very easy to understand and implement SQL. DB design and data importing are super handy and easy to execute. I can integrate with SSIS packages and monitor them inside the SQL server itself. I can also connect to cloud azure SQL servers as well, I can tell many more best things about SQL server but I will stop here **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** Unless I use rollback I can't undo the executed operation which I dislike about SQL server. While loading txt files it cannot detect delimiter and it can't detect datatypes if we are using CSV or txt file also sometimes the app crashes abruptly or it can't take correct inputs from the mouse and keyboard. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** I am able to design good databases with required data quality requirements, I am able to run our daily data load using SSIS. I also use SQL server to quickly generate required data with small sized csv/.xlsx files using queries ### 19. Must learn database for tech beginners. **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Management Consulting | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 17, 2023 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** Microsoft SQL is very developer friendly, has good performance, and is simple to install, the store procedure is what I like the most. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** design is not appealing, not a good solution for managing massive data since it lacks in performance, also incompatible with MacOS. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** To extract the user data from the database, perform operations and to analyze the data. ### 20. SQL server is one of the best database engines. **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** José Daniel M. | Analyst, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 01, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** I like your IDE, Manager Studio. I find the level of integration very useful, as it is a Microsoft software, with the possibility of integrating with Power BI Desktop, for example. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** The cost of the licenses, No, what I don't like about the software is the issue of the cost of the licenses. Make airplanes for students to use the software in costs and maybe it can be used in iOS. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** SQL helps us clean the data in our company, integrate with other software, and provides the capability to work with large amounts of data. If you are able to drive, you can get more accurate KPIs. ### 21. Simply SQL **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Vasantha R. | Assistant Manager EPM , Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 03, 2023 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** SQL is a tool where we can store, retrieve to get details for analysis and reporting purpose **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** Too techincal, but powerful to use. need more IT experience to use **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Creating Database, integration. We can use for multiple retrieving process ### 22. Standar defacto Database with many features and huge support and community. **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sebastian R. | Solutions Architect, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 30, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** Wide adoption, integration, low learning curve, fast and reliable. Able to deploy in the cloud. User management and integration with authentication services. Production-ready and extensive support. The SQL Server is low maintenance, it does not require advanced technical skills to maintain or use it as you might in other similar database solutions. You need some knowledge on how to access the solution and how to query it but it is fairly straightforward. Corrupt data is always a concern when power loss or improper shutdowns occur. Microsoft SQL Server has several features that promote data restoration and recovery. Although individual tables can't be backed up or restored, complete database restoration options are available. Through the use of log files, caching, and backups, Microsoft's product allows you to feel confident that disaster recovery options are plentiful. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** Price, and vendor lock, are not great for big data tasks. Upgrades sometimes require long downtime, backups are not the best. Replication. Support (unless paid). Expensive compared to its competitors. Bug tracking is also tricky; must be simplified. The settings and adjustments can be improved a little more, so many naive users will also be able to use it. Auto-shrink needed to stay for backward compatibility…The FULL recovery model is the default. I would guess that this is responsible for the majority of cases of transaction logs growing out of control. RECOVERY is the default RESTORE option. The default should be NORECOVERY to stop people screwing up their restore sequences. GUIDs can be clustered index keys. I shouldn't even have to explain this one. SQL Server should warn you that a PK is by default a clustered index and that GUID clustered PKs just suck. The default data and log file growth rates of 1-MB and 10% respectively. Seriously, why did they change to 1-MB for the default auto-growth rate? However, the problem is – what should the defaults be? Answers on a postcard, please… **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft SQL Server:** SQL's performance is good enough if you have a low amount of data. For those looking into implementing SQL Server, I would advise first analyzing your requirements and whether your system is critical or non-critical. If it is non-critical, go for SQL as it will save you in terms of cost, but if it is critical, avoid SQL as it will bring you down in one day. I would rate this solution eight out of ten. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Maintaining a huge collection of business data and able to use integration tools to daily ingest and create reports, easy-to-use SQL langue for Business clients and fast response for our needs. With built-in transparent data compression and encryption features, SQL server offers enhanced performance. To secure and encrypt the data, users need not modify programs. SQL Server provides efficient permission management tools with access controls designed to help users secure sensitive business information. Data Scientists and Data Analysts use SQL to efficiently mine the data they analyze for actionable insights. ### 23. SQL Server is database application for RDBMS **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prajakta M. | Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 10, 2023 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** Easy to use IDE for CRUD operation using SQL Server Management Studio. Follows SQL format **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** Auto generating of tables and columns with specific data types is not possible **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to create and maintain data on a large scale. THis data is very easy to manage and secure. ### 24. Microsoft SQL Server **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Government Administration | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** October 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** Excellent relational database platform, we use MS SQL Server for all our backend databases from public safety to financials. We also use MS SQL Server as a robust reporting tool, analyzing data / updating data. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** Not really a lot I do not like, however if I would have to have a dislike it would be performance. Sometimes we have to issues for database locks which impacts end users. We have processes in place to mitigate the issues now, so all is well. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** We use MS SQL Server to transform data and push / pull interfaces between not only internal systems but exterior third party vendors as well. This works extremely well in the push / pull interfaces and saves a tremendous amount of time in automation. ### 25. MS SQL Server **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Rick M. | Director, Owner, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** May 04, 2023 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** Ease of use, integrates well into apps, available on multiple platforms. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** There are limited tuning options within the software itself. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Support for our primary product line. ### 26. MS SQL - Business User Review - Best Database Solutioning system **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Md I. | Digital Solution Specialist, Information Technology and Services, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 25, 2021 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** Very Good Database Engine with simple Query language used to fetch data records from tables or stored procedures. Very high-level indexing and sorting can be seen when fetched query-based records with execution time very much faster. Easy and Understandable Structured Query Language support can be easily learned by everyone. Query Debugging is an added advantage and support for developers. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** most often, when tuning the procedures which were already created some time back, to improve the data retrieving we need to get some default suggestions highlighted by the usage of artificial intelligence and then review them internally and then decide if those are to be accepted or remain the way. Because as we move forward in time, there is a lot of data getting created in database tables and to make sure the data retrieval rate also be on stand by then this is the best default suggestion which MS SQL can provide rather than just integrating with 3rd party applications to detect the code redundancy. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Microsoft SQL Server is helping many organizations in storing their huge data getting generated through their websites or their user database and showing the respective user its required data set based on back-end coding. Generally helping businesses to store, and efficiently retrieve their data. Many Tables, Procedures, T_SQL Statements, Triggers etc could be written so that client-side weightage gets decreased whenever the website is being used by public or targeted users. ### 27. Best Database engine, easy to select, insert , delete and update data in the database **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Salman F. | Software Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 06, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** We can store the data that we're using throughout our project and fetch in case when we need it...like I'm an RPA Developer working on Uipath and ABBYY, in both tools we have option to connect to the database and select, insert, update or delete the data as our wish. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** Sometimes database management server takes time to load the database environment if the database contains more data like tables or stored procedures or something. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** It's really helping me in my project, we won't lose data when we export it to a database until we delete it from the database. So daily required data, logs and all things can be stored in the DB so that anytime we can have a look and cross check it, we can also select, insert, update and delete data as our wish ### 28. Best Database system(s) out there **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** William K. | Manufacturing Execution System Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 02, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** Easy to install, maintain. Good,easy to use, intuitive GUI tools but which also offer the capability to dig into the database and really tune and optimize database operations. Easy to connect to. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** So many varieties, especially in Azure that is it can be hard to determine which version is right for you. Some of the more feature laden versions can be fairly expensive **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Saving business critical information and allowing to build a database and its components (stored procedures, views, indexes, etc) so that the database is useable and useful. BI, reporting tools available. Backups and always on features ### 29. SQL Server Review **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Suprio R. | Principal Consultant, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** SQL Server is a widely used Database management system and Microsoft provides premier support for its product. Needless to say, it has great community support and the BI capabilities are too good with easy integration for SSIS packages. The interface is user-friendly and maintenance is low and easy to deploy to the cloud. Easy to store and retrieve data. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** Licensing cost is a challenge for many organizations. When the query gets complex, it takes a hit in the performance and the interface also acts laggy. Connectivity issue also occurs many a time while connecting to the DB. Recovery of corrupt data is a cumbersome process. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** 1. Creating data pipelines to support business use cases. 2. Developing dashboards by pulling out the required information from the SQL server. 3. Creating APIs to support business logic and frontend development of applications. ### 30. Making data analysts life easy **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Dishant B. | Associate Consultant, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 30, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** Queries are faster and provide more flexibility. It is easy to drill down to row level data. Joins and Indexing are really helpful. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** No downsides as such. Everything is up to date. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Easy to reduce data which helps in fast computations at report level.Indexing helps alot as such. ### 31. Sql is the way to go **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Brian D. | Agent de soutien informatique, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** December 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** Always great compatibility , easy to sue and doc support for when you got a problem **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** Honestly, nothing to hate, it's worldwide use so we have great community to have help **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Redundancy with cluster use , easy to configure ### 32. Most easy and best performer Databases **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Sajidur R. | Lead Software Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** I like the memory optimization feature that currently comes with sql server 2014 and json filter. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** Some of the features, like different types of data checking that are by default disabled in oracle, need to be disabled here **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Currently i am using sql server as my most of the software development solutions. Daily using it. ### 33. Ease of use **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Burak K. | System Engineer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 30, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** It has many useful tools like SQL server profiler and SQL server management studio. It is easy, fast and user-friendly. I also like about recovery solutions of the ms SQL server. It's very reliable. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** The answer must be about operating system support. It has only supporting windows OS as I know. MS SQL can't be an option if I use Linux or Ubuntu. One more lousy side of ms SQL is that it's not an open source. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have a 3rd party solution that is coded with csharp. We needed to keep our data secure and usable. We needed historical data analysis. Therefore we used the ms SQL server for our project. ### 34. Microsoft SQL Server review **Rating:** 3.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Anish A. | Frontend Developer, Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** September 02, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** Quick backing up and restoring of databases. Particularly useful when testing. Easy installation process and setting up new databases. I find triggers useful to keep the integrity of business logic. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** Managing user roles and security could be clearer it is confusing at first. Integration Services is ok for the most part, but it lacks that Enterprise class level of robustness of an effective ETL tool. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** We used SQL Server for numerous purposes - Line of Business applications, ERP, Sharepoint, Reporting, and Analytics in the past.It is used only by the programming team. ### 35. Best Database for managing Large Data **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Prakash C. | Developer, Computer Software, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 15, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** Microsoft Sql server is very easy to use and very easy to manage. Its one of best Relational database I have used. It provides lot of facilities like store procedure, function, Tigger, view etc. And best part I used is service broker. By this we are able to do lots of task asynchronous. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** Its licence cost is high. Need to work on more JSON part. Rset all good. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Basically we have product based organisation so need to maintain lots of user data and for that sql server is best choice to maintain and access data very fast. ### 36. Microsoft Sql server makes it easy to manage your databases **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Matt M. | Infrastructure Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 09, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** The ability to run queries against databases and pull exactly the data that you are looking for is great for generating reports. It's also easy to create backup jobs for databases and transaction logs. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** Sql Server can be a bit intimidating to those who are new to it. There are many menus with useful options that may never get used unless you go looking for them. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** SQL Server is running multiple databases for several database applications our company runs. We run a secondary server to test our backup restores weekly to ensure they are sound. ### 37. Microsoft SQL Server - OutSystems **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 02, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** Microsoft SQL Server provides data to other software applications. To interact with SQL Server databases and manage or query data we can use T_SQL. Data migration to OutSystems cloud from on-a-premise data (SQL server database) for legacy applications is quite easy. Here we can analyze which table needs to migrate and what transformation required. Integrate external Database with Integration builder and integration Studio. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** While connecting to the External database SQL Server, an external database created in integration supports only one database. if we require various tables or collections from different databases must create several integrations.. It's not possible to rename entities or attributes. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** For legacy applications where there will be already existing DB, in this scenario if I have any Data in SQL server or MYSQL we can easily integrate with OutSystems. ### 38. Reliable DataBase Engine **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Diego D. | Infrastructure Engineer, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 18, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** The most important is that Microsoft SQL has the power to manage multiple databases at the same time, no matter the size of the data, it can handle all the transactions without having a reduction in its performance. Also, it has a very friendly management interface for the database admins, they work every day with it and they feel comfortable. Besides this tool is ready for the scalation that the company could need in the future, you don't have to think about making big changes to support the rise of users or data. On the other hand, I like the integration you could have with so many different third parties software, you can make many different integrations having your data on a single place **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** At this moment I'm very satisfied with the performance and use of the tool in general. **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft SQL Server:** If you are looking for a reliable database engine, then Microsoft SQL Server has to be one of the options, they have different licensing options that could fit the requirements of the organization. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** The centralization of the management of databases, the opportunity to have a failover system between different servers without having an impact in the final users ### 39. Relational Data Management tool with great capacity **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** shiv s. | Business Intelligence developer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 19, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** Software product to store and query the data, Comes with user-friendly interface. It supports a vast variety of transactional processing and BI tools. Ex. you can connect SQL Server database with most of the reporting tools to build reporting solutions for organizations. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** Licensing cost is high, SQL Server Standard Edition costs $7,171 per processor. Other cheap options are available in the market such as MYSQL. also, SQL Server is window-based solution, not supported in Unix. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** We have Manufacturing data stored on SQL server which is being further pulled in Power BI for BI reporting and dashboards. ### 40. Reliable one for database management **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 05, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** Microsoft SQL Server is well suited when an application needs to have high control over its data from creating, managing to maintaining. Data wil be highly structured and related to each other. It can be integrated with a lot of frameworks. and according to me it is the most frequently used one all over the world. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** The UI of the SQL server is not that appealing. a more intuitive or graphical way to monitor the performance would be very appreciated if it's created in the SQL server. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Maintaining the data in SQL is very simple. and it is easy to find people who are good in MSSQL servers as it's commonly used everywhere. Querying and maintaining the data in SQL server is comparatively easy . ### 41. Microsoft SqL server **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Shivam C. | Data Scientist, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 04, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** The way it integrate with ide like vs code and provide flexibility is awesome **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** Sometime we have to point the whole database.schema.tablename to query the data ,that is bit complex ,table name should be enough **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Levegaing SQL server for transaction audit purpose ### 42. Microsoft SQL Server Highlights **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Georges W. | IT and BI Specialist, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** April 27, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** The feature I used in the SQL server is an activity monitor, SQL server Profile and other features that may help me to administer the server easily. It is the best tool in his range because it's stable and friendly use. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** The documentation and support are too traditional so every time we are facing a problem we have to find a solution from outsourcing experts and references. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** We are using SQL for our ERP system in the manufacturing process for paper and other finished goods, it helps us to create advanced procedures that will be used in BI. ### 43. Widely Used Relational Database Management System **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Information Technology and Services | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** Wide Industry usage. Supports on Multiple Platforms Easiest and best Relational Database management System. Easy cloud migration. One of the Longest existing in the market **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** Sometimes Slow. MS Vendor support can be improved. Too frequent updates on OS and server level which should be reduced. I feel that Licienced version is a little expensive. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** The Entire organization's Infrastructure is hosted on Microsoft SQL Server. Easy to set up and use. Supports direct migration to Azure which has been highly beneficial. Can be integrated with multiples reports and applications. ### 44. Robust database engine **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nebojsa P. | Network Coordinator, Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 05, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** This database engine has proven very robust and reliable for long-term use. Easy to set up with minimal failure events. It can hold up to a large number of databases simultaneously. It provides an excellent management console with a great visualizer of events; this also includes a backup solution with scheduling. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** Microsoft SQL Server needs a lot of memory and creates large logs. The solution has a mid-price range cost. Not many complaints about functionality and task execution. **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft SQL Server:** It is an excellent database tool for any size company that needs good quality data administration. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** This engine handles real company needs for database storage and processing. Migrating from another solution and merging another system into one Server was one of the most significant benefits of the use of Microsoft SQL Server ### 45. Best in class SSMS tool in Market **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** June 21, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** 1. Best SSMS Tool in the Market. 2. MS SQL Server is a tool where we can manage databases from scratch to enterprise level. 3. We can write complex queries and generate an Execution plan for that with a clear understanding at Extend level. 4. it's not open source so there is no security breach. 5. Inbuild query builder and views functions with AI enabled features. 6. No any run time database manuputaion technique by which every thing is safe and secure. 7.MS Sql Server is supporting BI , transaction processing like Begin transaction and roll back transactions and many more. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** 1. Its Paid tool and prices are quite higher. 2. High memory usage and indexing feature is not that much adequate. **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft SQL Server:** Must be used in all size organizations highly recomonded **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** best tooll for managing database ### 46. Reliable, Secure and Powerful Database **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Nitesh K. | Project Associate(II), Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** February 16, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** MS SQL Server installation is easy, fast, and user friendly. The GUI interface is excellent and user friendly, to understand and use. I can easily connect MS SQL with my Visual Studio application and quickly get the response of the query. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** The core-based licensing cost is a little bit high for small and medium organizations. UI becomes unresponsive when I execute any select query with multiple unions of tables on a large database. **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft SQL Server:** MS SQL is a robust database. Easy to install and user-friendly. Highly recommended for this. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** I'm using MS SQL for managing an organization’s cluster database in different locations. The backup and restore process is quick and easy as compared to the previous version which saves time and effort. ### 47. Best for on premise data storage. **Rating:** 5.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Computer Software | Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** November 07, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** This is the most preferred option when it comes to store data on premise. It could be an application data or something else. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** Sometime the join queries take a bit longer time than usual when working with larger tables. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** It soles the problem of storing chunks of application data hosted on server and can be very helpful for our business or enterprise. ### 48. It is a very good and almost excelent SQL engine **Rating:** 4.0/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Verified User in Architecture & Planning | Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.) **Reviewed Date:** August 11, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** The same as all the other SQL engines, super practice and easy to use without almost any problems, was one of the most stable SQL engine I ever used and it was amazing. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** I noticed that some of the commands for exemple "Create table" was a bit laggy and sometimes it didn't work as good as it was supposed. Besides that, there was nothing else. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** well in my case it is nice as always, I have always used MS SQL server to work with SQL so for me it was solving all the problems related to creating and managing SQL ### 49. An excellent database manager to manage your business databases **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Jonathan Alexander C. | IT Infraestructura y Desarrollo, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** July 15, 2021 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** What I like most about this database gesture is how robust it is and how many databases it can handle simultaneously without degrading its performance. Also, the number of users that it can support connected simultaneously makes it one of the most stable database managers on the market and at the same time, it could be said that one of the most used at the business level, this is because it has the performance and confidence that DBAs and infrastructure managers need for the business **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** So far I have no complaints about its operation so I do not add anything negative to the tool **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft SQL Server:** I recommend it 100% because it will give you the security and efficiency that your company needs when managing its databases and keeping them safe and performing well. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** Previously we had multiple database managers, but once we acquired SQL Server, we were able to group all our databases in a single manager and this could create a failover cluster between servers and keep the database redundant on the servers. ### 50. SQL server **Rating:** 4.5/5.0 stars **Reviewed by:** Harsha S. | Senior System Engineer, Enterprise (> 1000 emp.) **Reviewed Date:** January 05, 2022 **What do you like best about Microsoft SQL Server?** I like the tools and services provided in Azure for working with the relational databases. The azure portal provides a good user experience for interacting with database. I have been working woth Azure Sql server for 1 year now and im enjoying it. **What do you dislike about Microsoft SQL Server?** Sometimes connection to the databases takes little time. And even while fetching the query results from the tables. Sometimes even the connection gets timed out. **Recommendations to others considering Microsoft SQL Server:** If you are loofor easy, reliable, fast and highly available relational Databases then Microsoft Sql server is the great option to consider. **What problems is Microsoft SQL Server solving and how is that benefiting you?** I have been working with sql server for one year as a part of my company project. I use it to store the structured data and query them whenever we need it. 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