SQL Server 7.0 Enterprise Edition

Pros: modern SQL dialect, good user interface for admin, compact and fast server
Cons: few

During the last two years I worked as a programmer on a classic client-server project. As database backends we support several versions of Oracle, InterBase (by Borland) and MS-SQL. We started out with MS-SQL 6.5. One of our customers migrated recently...

Pros: cheap, fast, easy to use
Cons: advanced features are not straight forward

I am a software developer for a telecommunications company. When faced with selecting a database for our product, I reviewed several offerings, including Oracle 8i and MS SQL Server 7. In fact, these were the two finalists.

Since...

Pros: Great Software
Cons: Lacks Easy Management for non IT Professionals

Being an IT Professional, Database Software is part of my everyday activities. Along with using the software myself, training department heads to use the software as well is an important role. Managing MS-SQL databases can be very easy or it can be...

Pros: New GUI, DTS, OLAP services
Cons: you can not directly upgrade

SQL 7 is more of Microsoft playing “catch up” then direct innovation; even then they are shooting them selves in the foot on the most important option, installation. You can not do a direct upgrade from any other version of Microsoft SQL, it must be a...

Pros: Powerful, very fast, reliable, scalable, tight integration with other Microsoft technologies
Cons: Not free ;-)

I have been very happy with SQL Server 7, so happy that I will upgrade to SQL Server 2000 soon. One reason I want to upgrade is the new version has a better management console, whereas the one in version 7 is quite difficult to learn and sometimes...

Pros: Very efficient if you know how to use it, Ease workload on the development staff
Cons: Expensive

As a web developer I work with databases quite often. I have worked with many including FoxPro, Access, and more. The benefits gained by moving to SQL are phenomenal. If you are a business it is a must have.

Stored Procedures are absolutely...

Pros: Secure, Net-enabled, enhanced user interface
Cons: none

Microsoft SQL Server 7.0 is a Structured Query Language (SQL) based, client/server relational database. It has quite a lot improvements over the previous versions. Some of them are:
Reduced Administrative Overhead and Cost of Ownership
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Pros: Ease of Use, Administration, Cost
Cons: Microsoft could still do some work on documenting "Crazy" error codes that don't necessarily have meaning

In the last two years we've built a business that depends heavily on the functionality and feature-set of the database. Our business depends on the ability to deliver rich, valuable content over the web. We needed easy administration, good or excellent...

Pros: stable, powerful
Cons: need training for backend support

This is a sturdy database with few problems. I really like this database because it is easy to troubleshoot what is actually happening with the data. If I need to go into a table and change things, I am able to do so by writing simple SQL statements....

Pros: evert
Cons: nothing

SQL Server Enterprise Edition is an excellent RDBMS system. It is great for those of you who are working on a complete Microsoft platform. Unless you have a Unix server, most small time developers and medium range companies use the Microsoft family of...