Database Software

 

If your business has a large amount of data to record, analyse and maintain, then Microsoft SQL Server could be the answer.

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You’ve almost certainly heard of it but may not know what it is or how it can help you.

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On it’s own, Microsoft SQL Server is just a repository for data. It can do some pretty cool things with the data – and it’s not exactly slow doing it either – but to get it to do these things, even to get the data into SQL Server and then to retrieve it again as useful business information, you need some tools…

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One possible tool is Microsoft Access, which can be used as a “front end” (just a fancy way of saying that it is used by the user to manipulate and view the data) and in turn can do some pretty neat things with the data too.

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Alternatively, you can develop a nice swishy web based front end for the data (maybe you want the data displayed in your company intranet or website)

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You could even get a whole custom application written around the SQL Server database, probably by using one of the programming languages included in Microsoft Visual Studio.net