Microsoft SQL Server Reviews & Product Details

Requires very less disk space, it is very easy to use and the quality of support that it provides is excellent. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Since its a Microsoft product, it's not available for mac. To use it on mac you have to download virtual box to access it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Very easy to write SQL queries, create stored procedures etc. Really easy to maintain the database using matainance plans etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Should provide automatic suggestions in terms of maintainance plans etc instead of user trying to get the details using queries. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Extremely easy to use, performs in every way that you'd expect. Using Azure is much better integration, but it can be done through AWS and IBM Cloud as well. The Azure version charges very little, something like $20/month, which makes it much more useful in terms of integrating with cloud, but if you want to use it by itself it's still relatively expensive due to licensing fee. I use to be a C# programmer, the microsoft stack generally works extremely well and stable, especially building products that's enterprise or medium size business focused. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cost too much comparing to competitor products, esp. MySQL. Also, the SQL Server doesn't integrate well with other platform like LAMP or node.js. I'd prefer more support libraries being focused on those so it can be as easy to use as C#. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The widespread universality of the language makes this my go-to when implementing a database backbone to software. Not only does it work efficiently, integrate with Windows domain structure, but it also plays well with other software to help lay-users create their own reports. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While backup options are workable, it doesn't seem quite as efficient as other database solutions. In addition its widespread use makes it an easy target for third party backup solutions to target and charge extra for the feature of backing it up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Data accessing via Excel or Access is very easy.Reporting services are a really good example to present and analyze the data to management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Definitely room for improvement in SQL server reporting services. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

User interface is good and has faster performance (personal experience). I has additional functionalities like the CTE and cursor variables which is not available in Oracle Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Adds a lot of log files your system registry Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Microsoft is convenient to use. The SQL server management studio is a clean user interface. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Setting up MS SQL and resource management on the server to optimize the efficiency is tough Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Easy and friendly querying using SQL Management Studio,

Easy integration with other Apps Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cost is bit high and portion of the databases goes to the restrictive augmentations to standard SQL for guaranteeing the vendor secure Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

MS SQL is very easy to use tool set. The best part is that now it is linked with AZURE Cloud and it is capablle of providing great solutions to the business needs Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SQL server requires maintainance plans to be configured else can get really slow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

SQL Server packs a lot of features for the price. Microsoft has been very forward thinking lately with the newest features going well beyond a traditional RDBMS, with Big Data Clusters and Graph database features in addition to what has already been included in the past. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I would say there isn't a lot to dislike. Some might say Oracle still has some features that SQL Server doesn't have, however, I haven't seen anything where you couldn't find something comparable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.