SQL Developer vs Microsoft SQL Server | TrustRadius
Oracle
Almost all development activities (the tool is called “SQL Developer”, not “DBA Toolset”) can be done easily and quick with [Oracle] SQL Developer. From data model creation (tables, views) to development (creation of procedures, functions, packages) and then testing (SQL Developer includes an easy to use debugger), all tasks can be performed in a single tool.
It may not be as complete as other solutions for DBA tasks like instance monitoring, but it is usually OK for development and testing environments if you want to do some basic troubleshooting.
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Microsoft
Microsoft SQL Server is a great RDBMS and meets all of our requirements. If you need a stable DB platform to support your line of a business application you’ll be well served. Licensing costs are far cheaper, more portable and a lot more user friendly than Oracle. Product support and security patches from Microsoft are strong.
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Oracle
Object Browser in SQL Developer allows you to explore the contents of your database using the connection tree.
The SQL Worksheet is an editor that allows for execution of SQL statements, scripts, and PL/SQL anonymous blocks. SELECT statements can be executed to return results in a spreadsheet-like ‘grid’ or can be executed as a script such to emulate SQL*Plus behavior and output
DBA Console allows users with administrative privileges to access DBA features such as database init file configuration, RMAN backup, storage, etc.
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Microsoft
Easy to configure and use with Visual Studio and Dot Net
Easy integration with MSBI to perform data analysis
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Easy to understand and use
Very easy to export database and tables in the form of SQL query or a script
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Inability to run multiple queries on the same database. You can only run one query on a given database.
Analytical models created from complex tables isn’t accurate, and needs work.
Inability to view multiple tables of a database side-by-side. When trying to find correlations between tables, it would help to be able to see them at once on the same page.
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Microsoft
The import/export process can be tricky to follow with lots of steps and could be better for importing flat files
Obtaining help from Microsoft is cumbersome and often other internet sources are better and quicker
The documentation is not great and again it’s generally better to obtain help elsewhere if needed
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Oracle
It allows most users to perform daily activities in a simple way, with no cost since the tool is free.
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Microsoft
We understand that the Microsoft SQL Server will continue to advance, offering the same robust and reliable platform while adding new features that enable us, as a software center, to create a superior product. That provides excellent performance while reducing the hardware requirements and the total cost of ownership of our solution.
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Oracle
It has lot of features that are required in SQL editor. It does the job well and is reliable. It is user friendly, integrates with different databases, and can be used for advanced database management activities.
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Microsoft
SQL Server mostly ‘just works’ or generates error messages to help you sort out the trouble. You can usually count on the product to get the job done and keep an eye on your potential mistakes. Interaction with other Microsoft products makes operating as a Windows user pretty straight forward. Digging through the multitude of dialogs and wizards can be a pain, but the answer is usually there somewhere.
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Microsoft
Its does not have outages.
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Microsoft
SSAS data cubes may some time slow down your Excel reports.
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Oracle
Oracle support is good. In general a get good and quick answers to my questions.
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Microsoft
We managed to handle most of our problems by looking into Microsoft’s official documentation that has everything explained and almost every function has an example that illustrates in detail how a particular functionality works. Just like PowerShell has the ability to show you an example of how some cmdlet works, that is the case also here, and in my opinion, it is a very good practice and I like it.
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Microsoft
It was good
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Microsoft
very hands on and detailed training
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Oracle
Just download and uncompress!
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Microsoft
Other than SQL taking quite a bit of time to actually install there are no problems with installation. Even on hardware that has good performance SQL can still take close to an hour to install a typical server with management and reporting services.
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Oracle
I have started to use Toad for Oracle recently because it is easier to sort and filter results, due to their memory sort feature that puts the results from your query in memory so that you don’t have to rerun your query. I have used SQL Developer to easily update records in tables that I need to fix. I haven’t found an easy way to do this in Toad other than writing SQL insert statements.
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Microsoft
[Microsoft] SQL Server has a much better community and professional support and is overall just a more reliable system with Microsoft behind it. I’ve used MySQL in the past and SQL Server has just become more comfortable for me and is my go to RDBMS.
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Microsoft
SQL server does handle growing demands of a mid sized company.
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Oracle
It gives 100% return on investment as it is free of cost.
No need to have multiple tools for each database
Considering the employee training, so one can save money on training, as it is not very hard to use so still savings.
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Microsoft
Increased accuracy – We went from multiple users having different versions of an Excel spreadsheet to a single source of truth for our reporting.
Increased Efficiency – We can now generate reports at any time from a single source rather than multiple users spending their time collating data and generating reports.
Improved Security – Enterprise level security on a dedicated server rather than financial files on multiple laptop hard drives.
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