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Companies of all sizes, looking for database management software
Any company looking for out-of-the-box tools for meaningful, actionable, and user-friendly reports that allow flexibility of self-service BI while keeping the design within limits with standardization
I have had a good experience with SQL Server as it has proven itself to be reliable, secure and efficient.
The least thing i found about the software is error statement , some times an extra space can cause a huge problem , and throwing the error which is not likely understandable.
Overall I had an amazing experience. It is very powerful and useful for scalable enterprises.
The lack of reporting services is a terrible shortage. It could have an alternative in Apache, or even allow integration with Windows servers for this demand.
What I like most about SQL for Linux is the possibility to reduce this cost drastically, with an amazing OS and extremely stable SQL in this environment.
Pricing is quite confusing and costly, and performance can be sluggish at times when dealing with low RAM.
It is best database software to support as back end for all the RPA product like Automation Anywhere and UiPath. It is best database for configuration and support as back end.
Licensing is confusing, whenever you have license by call or by CPU core, it's a bit hard to understand how they apply the prices.
Overall the experience so far is great. I've only really been utilising the free trials but things are good.
That there is no German version and no German documents.
Its powerful features, flexibility, and ease of use make it an indispensable asset for professionals working with business intelligence.
Sometimes performance problems. The design of the card visualization is sometimes striking.
Love the templates and additional visuals with great additional functionality.
Lack of development pipeline, material is more marketing focussed.
The simple to use apps can make the average user look like a superstar. Also, excellent resources, I enjoy taking part in the webinars.
Lack of bundle price for full suite. Some obvious bugs gets released.
Lew N.: Hi, my name is Lew, I am the Director of Information Technology for Young's Plant Farm. We're an annual and perennial grower supplier for big box retail stores, and I give Microsoft SQL Server a five out of five review. Okay. We chose SQL Server as we shifted away from some of the more mid-range systems that had built-in databases and we also looked at IBM DB2 and we just were very happy with the interface and how well Microsoft SQL Server ported across all of our different servers and applications. The primary reason the value-added reseller that provides the vertical system for growers uses a SQL Server database as its primary database, so we were familiar with SQL for that. As we were shifting into the data warehousing mode and developing our own internal data warehouse, we chose to use the same platform because we were familiar with it and we liked the way it worked, and we knew it was powerful. As with Microsoft products, the installs and the look and fill of the product are pretty much the same across all of their suite of products. SQL Server was very simple to install, didn't really have any licensing issues or anything like that, so we got it up and running. As far as the installation for our data warehouse, we just started creating tables and setting it up the way we needed and morphed and adjusted and enhanced from there. Just getting started was very simple, and from there, we have launched it into the powerful tool that has become for us. If you're looking at a database platform to do your own in-house data warehouse and your own application development, linking with other Microsoft Power, BI power apps, products like that, SQL Server is definitely the product to go with. It is easy to set up, very secure, and very portable to other platforms, very interfaceable to other platforms.
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