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SQL Server Express is free database software that works great with any web application framework such as PHP, and your favorite applications such as Wordpress, and Drupal.
Category
RDBMS Free
Features
• Reporting feature that allows visualization of all manner of information. • Online backup that ensures that data is never lost. • Management studio that allows one to configure, manage, administer, and develop all components of SQL server. • Syncing of data that allows easily linking up of multiple SQL server database even on multiple devices. • Mapping of ones data using Bing maps.
License
Proprietary
Price
Free
Pricing
Subscription
Free Trial
Available
Users Size
Small (<50 employees), Medium (50 to 1000 Enterprise (>1001 employees)
• Online backup that ensures that data is never lost. • Management studio that allows one to configure, manage, administer, and develop all components of SQL server. • Syncing of data that allows easily linking up of multiple SQL server database even on multiple devices. • Mapping of ones data using Bing maps.
What are the benefits?
• It’s completely free. • It’s an ideal starting point for smaller independent software vendors since it can be used with any smaller application. • It has an option of free online backup that helps protect valuable business data incase anything goes wrong. • It has an impressive range of features that would have to be paid for with other systems. • Most suited to supporting production applications for smaller to midsize businesses.
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Bottom Line
SQL Server express is a free database software that works great with any web application framework like PHP, and applications such as WordPress, and Drupal and can be used to store and access the information stored in many different databases.
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SQL Server Express is a free database software that works great with any web application framework like PHP, including applications such as WordPress, and Drupal. It can be used to store and access the information stored in many different databases. It is a full database engine that can be deployed to a server or embedded into an application. It comes with a lot of free storage with three online encyclopedias that are free to distribute and even comes with reporting and online backup plus other great capabilities. It allows for 10GB of storage. It has the drivers that are needed to use a favorite language like PHP and also offers support for PHP data objects. If an organization want to host its own WordPress blog SQL server will take care of this easily. It also offers better security. No matter how big, how fast or how complex your organization gets, it will work perfectly. It has a reporting feature that helps to visualize information from your database automatically, from site traffic to anything else. Reporting makes data easier to interpret so that better decisions can be made. The online backup feature ensures that data is never lost and its free, so a database can be restored easily. The management studio feature allows one to configure, manage, administer, and develop all components of SQL server. It’s hosted inside visual studio and lets an organization manage, view, query, create, connect and so much more. Syncing data is also made possible where multiple SQL server databases are easily linked up on multiple devices even when offline. It also provides mapping of data using Bing maps. This allows one to easily create and view maps so as to be able to geographically visualize the data. It’s useful in that one is able to see where customers are and ultimately know where to focus efforts.
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