Question

Research Microsoft SQL Server and in your own words, describe your understanding of this and its role in Microsoft's model for web programming. Be sure to list your sources by providing links and/or printed book/article names.

As one open option available to us is Microsoft SQL Server Express, for your response discuss too which is better for development. SQL Server Express or a full SQL Server environment?

Answer 1

SQL Server or Structured Query Language Server is an open source server created by Microsoft to incorporate databases.It was designed in 1974 and it is used to handle data of several other appliactions that uses this server to store their databases. Microsoft's server is incorporated by various applications and the entire framework works like a client-server model where clients are the applications while the server is the SQL server. These applications produce data which is handled within the SQL server.

SQL is a structured query language which is specifically created to manage data i.e to store the data as well as retrieve them whenever needed. SQL server is available in different kinds so as to provide benefits to the clients of specific nature.

Why is SQL Server important in Web Programming?

i)Microsoft SQL server incorporates SQL which is a highly compatible language to handle databases. Thus, this server is quite handy & useful when it comes to web programming. The large data generated within a website can be easily tackled using the SQL server by taking it as a database and then handling it using SQL.

ii)Not only this, SQL server is quite useful in the data analysis and reports for the queries generated and produce important results with the same. The tools that are used for the same are SQL Server Analysis services and SQL Server Reporting Services.

iii) A lot of operations that include extracting the data, transferring the data or loading the data or simply ETL can be performed using the Intergration Services of the server.

iv) A lot of other services like Master Data Services and Machine Learning Services which incolves the languages used in Machine Learning like Python & R are supported by the SQL server.

If given a choice between Express & full edition of SQL server, I think full SQL server is highly useful for the development. Express is a free tool as well as open source and is very useful when we are learning about handling databases or creating small level projects but it might not come in handy when there are bigger prospects of the projects that have to be resolved and hence the fully fledged design of full development SQL server comes in handy there. Features like partitioning & compression of data cannot be managed by Express and for that the levelling up is required. There are various other features as well. Developement edition also provides licesensing which is also important further.