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# Microsoft SQL Server Reviews

## Reviews Summary

## Overall Rating

4.6

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## Ratings Breakdown

5

(1,258)

4

(660)

3

(55)

2

(3)

1

(1)

## Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.3

Customer Support

4.3

Value for money

4.3

Functionality

4.6

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### Pros

"It is a powerful, enterprise-grade RDBMS that offers high stability, advanced query optimization, and excellent data security features for professional workflows.""

"I particularly like the seamless integration with other Microsoft tools and the robust SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) for database administration.""

"All databases stored in sql server can be easily accessed in other systems such as powerbi and excel with your existing account credentials and just by providing database and table names"

### Cons

"The tricky part is some of the advanced stuff—it can get complicated if you’re diving into things like SSIS or Analysis Services. And yeah, licensing isn’t cheap if you’re running a full production setup."

"I don't like how difficult it can be to update certain roles for specific ip addresses."

"The other disadvantage is that it does not provide a path to identify which server you need to be on for the script to run."

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