What is Microsoft SQL Server?

so you have all this data but how do you access it Microsoft sequel server is a relational database management system that supports a wide variety of applications in corporate IT environments from transaction processing to business intelligence to analytics as the name suggests sequel server is built on top of SQL a language that database administrators and IT professionals use to manage and search databases Microsoft sequel server competes primarily against Oracle database and IBM's db2 in the relational database management system field within sequel server Microsoft also includes a variety of data management business intelligence and analytics tools

like our services machine learning services and sequel server analysis services Microsoft also offers different editions of sequel server to fit different organization sizes and business needs its primary editions include a free full-featured developer edition for database development and testing a free Express Edition for small databases with 10 gigabytes of storage capacity a standard edition with limited features and limits to the number of configurable processor cores and memory sizes and a full-featured Enterprise Edition Microsoft also offers both web and business intelligence versions between 1995 and 2016 Microsoft released ten versions of sequel server with early versions

targeted at departmental and workgroup applications more recent versions are enterprise grade and meant to rival other platforms for the high end database user you