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What kind of tooling are you speaking of? Honest question.
by infogulch 10y ago
What kind of tooling are you speaking of? Honest question.
- Pxtl 10y agoSql Server Reporting Services is great but the server website was obviously mid-2000s until very recently, even containing markup that wouldnt render in Chrome. SSIS is a hellscape of unnecessary designers for an ETL framework, and generates ultra-brittle packages that crash if the slightest schema tweaks happen. SSDT stores your schema and publishes diffs for easy deployment, but will gobble up all your RAM for half an hour to compile... if it doesn't crash. And SSMS has the worst tabbed interface ever for managing queries.
- infogulch 10y agoI agree with you on all points. Products on the periphery of SQL Server have been severely neglected for years. There is a replacement for some of SSRS in PowerBI and SSAS, which is actually pretty nice. If I'm not mistaken, people serious about version control and deployment in SQL Server use redgate software. My question is how other databases fare in these areas. I'm not familiar with any solutions for Reporting UI, ETL, and Schema Version Control in MySQL or PostgreSQL. What built-in tools do other databases have that outperform SQL Server's (obviously crumbling) functionality?
- mistermann 10y agoThe general consensus is usually that this MS tooling, yes the one just described, is very good! Certainly far better than the competition. It boggles the mind.